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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-08/12/
8 Mar 2021 -
Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: First Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/17/
18 May 2022 -
Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Order for Committee
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
I am in wholehearted support of this quality in public procurement Bill and I begin by commending my...To do this, legislation such as this quality in public procurement Bill is essential to create a carefully...Awarding the right contract to the right supplier is the cornerstone of public procurement and the litmus...the EU public works threshold, would set a target of 50% quality criteria....As the awarding of contracts is the spending of public funds it is imperative that these contracts are
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
While it is essential that the State achieve quality outcomes for citizens through public procurement...of award criteria best supports the effectiveness of their tendering process in pursuance value for...money in public contracts....There are many stages before award criteria in the procurement processes where contracting authorities...We would need to ensure that it does not delay the award of contracts.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-04-03/8/
3 Apr 2019 -
public procurement process....Its primary purpose is to mitigate the use of pricing as the exclusive grounds for contract award criteria...be awarded, noting that these criteria include elements such as price, quality, social and environmental...that contracting authorities shall not weigh price above 50% in the contract award criteria....For this reason, the Bill's attempt to restrict the use of price only in contract award criteria or in
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
The need to examine public procurement and public authorities and utilities under the contract preparation...and award criteria is a very timely topic....for greater emphasis on quality in determining the procedures involved in how we award public contracts...and environmental outcomes of the changes in public procurement, as proposed in Senator Higgins's Bill...We note the Bill does not propose introducing mandatory green public procurement criteria.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-08/12/
8 Mar 2021 -
Senator Alice-Mary Higgins I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give...award criteria in public contracts, to promote the use of social considerations and the best price-quality...ratio and to establish a procedure for departing from best price-quality ratio, to ensure that section...3 of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 applies to every contracting authority to which...the said Directive relates in respect of a contract equal to or greater than a determinable monetary
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
To be clear, section 4 deals with the contract award criteria....These are the criteria on which decisions as to how public contracts are awarded are made....Under the EU procurement directives, contracts must be awarded on the basis of the most economically...Under the Bill, contracting authorities will still have discretion but they will be required either to...The Bill endeavours to empower procurement officers who want to go for the price-quality approach and
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
The key to that is making quality the heart of the public procurement process and strengthening the way...we think about quality in public procurement....One example is that under the EU procurement laws, contracting authorities, when they prepare a call...for tenders, must decide whether they will be awarding the contract on the basis of the lowest cost only...both price and quality are thought about when making the decision on awarding the contract, or on life
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
of certain price and quality criteria in a public procurement contract or tendering process might have...Public procurement is everywhere....If a contract does not need to compete on quality, then we all pay the price....We need this Bill to restore public confidence....This Bill will create a new default approach to public procurement that would ensure that price and quality
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
Deputy Ossian Smyth In broad terms, what we are trying to do with public procurement is get a good...Government objectives in terms of climate change, green procurement, social procurement and so on....We are looking here at quality criteria....For some people, there is a fear that quality criteria means subjective criteria and that we are moving...We do not necessarily have to equate subjective criteria with quality criteria; they are not always the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
Section 3(4) proposes to prevent contracting authorities from including a best price-quality ratio where...the price is greater than 50% of the criteria....The directive requires contracts to be awarded on the basis of objective criteria that set out explicitly...that the most economically advantageous tender should be assessed on the basis of the best price-quality
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
contracts....One can take various approaches to this matter but public procurement is very different from private...As public procurement tries so hard to be non-discriminatory, give everybody a fair chance and avoid...For example, we can put criteria into contracts stipulating how much training will be provided by the...contractor and will be considered as part of the criteria for deciding whether to award the job.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2021-03-26/18/
26 Mar 2021 -
We must look at quality criteria, as Senator Higgins and others have said....In looking at public procurement contracts, I often consider how the public perceives what is happening...It went through a public procurement process and was originally meant to come in at a cost of €1.2 million...Whatever we do with public procurement, the public must have confidence the system will deliver on time...Of course there are times when projects run over for very good reasons, but once the contract is awarded
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
From a policy perspective, the requirement under section 4 of the Bill for the chief deciding officer..., for example, a Secretary General or a CEO, to make a declaration on every procurement procedure where...price is the only award criterion could be onerous and unnecessary...., may be considered to have introduced a discriminatory input into the procurement process....would need strong assurance that no material difference applied in quality or price-quality ratio, as
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2019-04-03/8/
3 Apr 2019 -
engages in the public procurement process....Getting the process by which the State tenders, vets and awards contracts to companies in the private...in the real lives of people who interact with the firms we contract through public procurement....The Bill is not prescriptive about who should be awarded contracts....Could the CervicalCheck errors have been avoided if a Bill like this had governed the public procurement
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Deputy Ossian Smyth) I signal...The definition of "contracting authority" in section 1 differs from the definition in the 2016 procurement...possible this difference could lead to ambiguity and confusion in the application of the provisions of the Bill...and the procurement regulations....There are two differing definitions of "contracting authority".
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2022-05-18/18/
18 May 2022 -
both the award criteria and their weightings....My Bill does not interfere with the discretion of an authority to choose the weighting but it allows...Again, if a public or contracting authority has a €10 million project and decides to do it with a 75%...criteria....chose to go with 75% price and only 25% quality.
