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Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 3 November 2020

Tuesday, 3 November 2020

Ceisteanna (1341)

Seán Sherlock

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1341. Deputy Sean Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the number of contracts approved in his Department in 2019 and to date in 2020 without competitive tender; the details of the contract; the company awarded the contract; and the full value of the contract in tabular form [33274/20]

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My Department is required to make annual returns under Department of Finance circular 40/2002 in respect of awarded contracts in excess of €25,000 without a competitive process. In 2019 there were two such contracts awarded.

Details for 2019 are set out in the table below.

Contract details

Company

Value (ex VAT)

Irish translation services (a tender competition to select a dedicated service provider from the OGP framework was carried out in 2020 and a contract is now in place)

Premier Irish Translation Services

€26,224

Legal Services

Liam O’Daly

€45,000

In respect of 2020, details of non-competitive contracts are not yet fully available, however indicative details for 2020 are set out in the table below.

Contract details

Company

Indicative Value (ex VAT)

Emergency canteen services (A competitive procurement process for canteen services was carried out in August 2020 and a contract is now in place)

Sambara Ltd

€268,500

AV Conferencing System (pandemic response: implementation of conferencing solutions

Scope AV

€25,255

Call centre services for Passenger Locator Forms

Capita Customer Solutions Ltd.

*

Distribution of Covid Safety Guidelines to households via national newspapers

Open Communications

€58,662

*The value of this contract is commercially sensitive as my Department will shortly be issuing a tender for this work.

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