Mairéad Farrell
Question:
152. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence the number and value of procurement contracts for Covid-19 related spending in 2020 and 2021 that took place via negotiated procedure without prior publication in his Department. [11175/21]
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Mairéad Farrell
Question:
153. Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Defence the breakdown of procurement contracts for Covid-19-related spending in 2020 and 2021 that took place via negotiated procedure without prior publication by his Department, by goods and service type, in tabular form. [11205/21]
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 152 and 153 together.
The detailed information sought by the Deputy is not readily available within the time frame sought. At the request of my Department the military authorities are conducting the search, retrieval and collation of same. I will arrange to have this information forwarded to the Deputy as soon as it is available.
I refer to the above-referenced Parliamentary Questions for which it was not possible to provide a reply within the available timeframe.
A wide range of non-capital goods and services are procured by the Department of Defence and the Defence Forces. These include items associated with day to day operations such as food, clothing, transport, utilities and the maintenance of equipment. The services of the Office of Government Procurement and centralised framework agreements are also used to acquire items that may be in common demand by a number of Departments.
In 2020 when the Covid crisis emerged the Department (including the Military Authorities) found itself in a position where a twin-track response to the crisis emerged. In the first instance the State’s contingent defence capability as delivered by the Defence Forces had to be maintained and secondly measures were required to ensure that elements of the Defence Forces and the Civil Defence were in a position to provide frontline services to complement the overall national response to the crisis.
To that end supplies of vital PPE, transport and communication assets were procured. The vast majority of the individual transactions amounted to a value of below €25,000.00 and as such were exempt from publication procedures. In respect of the remainder the extreme urgency of the crisis precluded prior publication as prescribed by both national and E.U procurement regimes. Procurement without prior publication is permitted within the terms of article 32.2(C) of the Public Procurement Directive 2014/24/EU in relation to non-military items and the provisions of Article 28 .3.(a) of the Defence & Security Directive 2009/81/EC concerning military items.
Defence Forces:
The Defence Forces awarded the contracts listed in Table 1 under regulation 32 negotiated procedure. No additional contracts were awarded through the negotiated procedure in 2021 to date.
Table 1
List of Vendors for Covid-19 Related Spend 2020
|
Type (Goods or Services)
|
Spend (Goods)
|
Spend (Services)
|
Total Spend
|
Year
|
Access Time & Control Ltd
|
Goods
|
€522.75
|
|
€522.75
|
2020
|
Accu-Science
|
Goods
|
€6,765.00
|
|
€6,765.00
|
2020
|
Armstrong Medical Ltd
|
Goods
|
€146.99
|
|
€146.99
|
2020
|
Critical Healthcare Ltd
|
Goods/ Services
|
€7,877.17
|
€127.92
|
€8,005.09
|
2020
|
Critical Support Ltd
|
Goods/ Services
|
€11,072.29
|
€954.95
|
€12,027.24
|
2020
|
Cruinn Diagnostics Ltd
|
Goods
|
€109,265.23
|
|
€109,265.23
|
2020
|
E-Fox (Engineers) Ltd
|
Goods
|
€7,995.00
|
|
€7,995.00
|
2020
|
Fannin Healthcare Ltd
|
Goods
|
€31,223.48
|
|
€31,223.48
|
2020
|
J&S Davis Ltd
|
Goods
|
€28,742.45
|
|
€28,742.45
|
2020
|
Mervue Labs Ltd
|
Goods
|
€250,000
|
|
€250,000
|
2020
|
Office Depot
|
Goods
|
€40,200
|
|
€40,200
|
2020
|
UNIPHAR Wholesale
|
Goods
|
€57,500
|
|
€57,500
|
2020
|
Flagship Scubadiving Ltd
|
Goods
|
€6,478.00
|
|
€6,478.00
|
2020
|
Henry Schein (IRL) Ltd
|
Goods
|
€1,913.89
|
|
€1,913.89
|
2020
|
Irish External Quality Assessment Scheme
|
Goods
|
€595.32
|
|
€595.32
|
2020
|
Iskus Health Ltd
|
Goods
|
€18,302.41
|
|
€18,302.41
|
2020
|
MDI Medical Ltd
|
Goods
|
€7,306.20
|
|
€7,306.20
|
2020
|
Medguard Healthcare Ltd
|
Goods
|
€28,859.43
|
|
€28,859.43
|
2020
|
Medical Supply Company
|
Goods/ Services
|
€4,121.28
|
€13,210.20
|
€17,331.48
|
2020
|
Prodent Ltd T/A Promed
|
Goods
|
€11,529.85
|
|
€11,529.85
|
2020
|
Rockford Healthcare Ltd
|
Goods
|
€147.60
|
|
€147.60
|
2020
|
Sealpack Ltd
|
Goods
|
€209.10
|
|
€209.10
|
2020
|
Skill Shop Ltd
|
Goods
|
€3,382.50
|
|
€3,382.50
|
2020
|
SP Services (UK) Ltd
|
Goods
|
€4,693.80
|
|
€4,693.80
|
2020
|
Swords Medical Ltd
|
Goods
|
€3,236.34
|
|
€3,236.34
|
2020
|
Uniphar Wholesale
|
Goods
|
€2,977.93
|
|
€2,977.93
|
2020
|
United Drug Wholesale Ltd
|
Goods
|
€14,642.95
|
|
€14,642.95
|
2020
|
Vernon Medical Ltd
|
Goods
|
€11,070.00
|
|
€11,070.00
|
2020
|
Telent Industries
|
Goods
|
€160,407.00
|
|
€160,407.00
|
2020
|
Tetra
|
Goods/ Services
|
€8,128.24
|
€9,639.76
|
€17,768.00
|
2020
|
Voyager IP
|
Goods/ Services
|
€142,007.19
|
€38,601.09
|
€180,608.28
|
2020
|
MJ Flood
|
Goods
|
€161,563.00
|
|
€161,563.00
|
2020
|
Total €1,205,416.31
Civil Defence:
In relation to Civil Defence my Department spent a total of €156,389 in 2020 and €5,991 in 2021, on Covid-19 related procurement using a negotiated procedure without prior publication. These were one off purchases of PPE for use by Civil Defence volunteers in the response to the Covid-19 crisis, including gloves, facemasks, hand sanitizer, goggles and disposable body-suits. All procurement was carried out in compliance with the Office of Government Procurement Public Procurement Guidelines for Goods and Services, 2019.
Details of the contracts with the various suppliers are outlined in Table2 below
Table 2
List of Vendors for Covid-19 Related Spend 2020
|
|
Type (Goods or Services)
|
|
Spend (Goods)
|
|
Spend (Services)
|
Total Spend
|
Year
|
BP GLOVES
|
|
Goods
|
|
€1,180.80
|
|
|
€1,180.80
|
2020
|
Classic Environmental Solutions
|
|
Goods
|
|
€2,800.71
|
|
|
€2,800.71
|
2020
|
Classic Environmental Solutions
|
|
Goods
|
|
€608.85
|
|
|
€608.85
|
2020
|
Classic Environmental Solutions
|
|
Goods
|
|
€3,028.88
|
|
|
€3,028.88
|
2020
|
Midland Veterinary Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€1,965.79
|
|
|
€1,965.79
|
2020
|
Liffey Mills
|
|
Goods
|
|
€759.65
|
|
|
€759.65
|
2020
|
Liffey Mills
|
|
Goods
|
|
€855.00
|
|
|
€855.00
|
2020
|
Vernon Medical Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€22,140.00
|
|
|
€22,140.00
|
2020
|
Fleming Medical
|
|
Goods
|
|
€11,685.00
|
|
|
€11,685.00
|
2020
|
Office Depot
|
|
Goods
|
|
€4,603.89
|
|
|
€4,603.89
|
2020
|
GS Medical Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€1,845.00
|
|
|
€1,845.00
|
2020
|
Oliver Douglas & Son Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€200.00
|
|
|
€200.00
|
2020
|
Oliver Douglas & Son Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€125.00
|
|
|
€125.00
|
2020
|
Critical Healthcare
|
|
Goods
|
|
€7,318.50
|
|
|
€7,318.50
|
2020
|
Winroy Industrial Polymers Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€14,585.34
|
|
|
€14,585.34
|
2020
|
Amber Fire Protection Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€2,767.50
|
|
|
€2,767.50
|
2020
|
Donegal Shores
|
|
Goods
|
|
€1,476.00
|
|
|
€1,476.00
|
2020
|
Amber Fire Protection Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€1,197.00
|
|
|
€1,197.00
|
2020
|
Theya Healthcare Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€73,800.00
|
|
|
€73,800.00
|
2020
|
Oliver Douglas & Son Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€82.60
|
|
|
€82.60
|
2020
|
Dohertys Hardware
|
|
Goods
|
|
€371.00
|
|
|
€371.00
|
2020
|
Health & Safety Publications
|
|
Goods
|
|
€2,457.71
|
|
|
€2,457.71
|
2020
|
Elite Safetec T/A Safety Tec
|
|
Goods
|
|
€128.49
|
|
|
€128.49
|
2020
|
Stakelum Office Supplies
|
|
Goods
|
|
€159.90
|
|
|
€159.90
|
2020
|
Alan King Agri Sales Ltd
|
|
Goods
|
|
€246.00
|
|
|
€246.00
|
2020
|
Critical Healthcare
|
|
Goods
|
|
€2,361.44
|
|
|
€2,361.44
|
2021
|
Critical Healthcare
|
|
Goods
|
|
€3,630.00
|
|
|
€3,630.00
|
2021
|
|
|
|
|
|
Total
|
|
|
€162,380.05
|
Air Corps:
In relation to Air Corps my Department spent a total of €5,354,012.68 in 2020 on Covid-19 related procurement using a negotiated procedure without prior publication. This one off purchase of an Aircraft for use in the response to the Covid-19. The procurement was carried out in compliance with the Office of Government Procurement Public Procurement Guidelines for Goods and Services, 2019.
Details of the contract are outlined in Table 3 below
Table 3
List of Vendors for Covid-19 Related Spend 2020
|
Type (Goods or Services)
|
Spend (Goods)
|
Spend (Services)
|
Total Spend
|
Year
|
Pilatus (Switzerland) (Aircraft Ltd)
|
Goods
|
€5,232,360.71
|
|
€5,232,360.71
|
2020
|
Pilatus (Switzerland) (Aircraft Ltd)
|
Goods
|
€55,508.40
|
|
€55,508.40
|
2020
|
Pilatus (Switzerland) (Aircraft Ltd)
|
Goods
|
€25,729.08
|
|
€25,729.08
|
2020
|
Pilatus (Switzerland) (Aircraft Ltd)
|
Service
|
€35,607.48
|
€4807.01
|
€40,414.49
|
2020
|
Total €5,354,012.68
I am satisfied that the Defence Forces have the necessary resources available to them, including a modern and effective range of equipment which is line with best international standards in order to fulfil all roles assigned to them by Government.