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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 6 March 2024

Wednesday, 6 March 2024

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Michael Fitzmaurice

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157. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide the names/confirm the officials and external parties involved in reviewing or scoring the equine marketing tender undertaken by his Department in April 2022; the date of any such tender evaluation; the number of applications received; the scoring differences between each tender evaluated; any guidance provided by officials involved in supporting the evaluators; the skills and background of each evaluator; what steps did the Department undertake to ensure that no official or external evaluator had any conflict or perceived conflict of interest and loyalty; what skills and experience in international marketing did those evaluating the applications possess; to provide the tender submissions received by each party to the tender process; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11074/24]

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Freagraí scríofa

The equine marketing tender evaluation panel was chaired by a Principal Officer of my Department and included two external experts in the fields of equine advisory/research and equine marketing.  The evaluation of the contracts took place on 3rd of May 2022. 

Two tenders were submitted.

Tenderer A received 620 marks and Tenderer B received 631 marks out of a potential 1000 marks.  The scoring difference between the tenderers was 11 marks. 

The evaluation panel members were provided with a document (attached below), including scoring guidelines.

Each member of the evaluation panel completed a conflict-of-interest form prior to the evaluation process. 

I am satisfied that the Evaluation Panel members both had the necessary skills and documentation to appropriately evaluate the tenders.

The tender documents submitted under the Marketing Tender are confidential and commercially sensitive documents and therefore are not publicly available.

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