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This examination identified six projects carried out under the contract with a combined expenditure of €7.4 million and where the value of work undertaken ranged from €600,000 to €2.5 million. These were in excess of the €500,000 limit for individual minor construction works.

OPW leased an office premises to accommodate the Department of Health and the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. This Chapter reviews the terms of the lease agreed and examines the circumstances that gave rise to the premises remaining unoccupied for an extended period.

This chapter examines the extent of non competitive procurement undertaken by Government departments and offices in 2011. This chapter basis this analysis of the 40/2002 returns submitted by Government departments and offices.

This chapter examines the extent to which procurement framework agreements have been established by the National Procurement Service (NPS) and the methodologies used by NPS for calculating savings from procurement initiatives.

This is a report on the Data Management System project of the Central Statistics Office as per their Information Technology Strategic Implementation Plan (ITSIP) formulated in March 2002.

This report on the National Convention Centre sets out to review, the quality of the initial business case, how costs and benefits were estimated, whether the procurement was conducted in accordance with government guidelines and the bid selected provided the best value and whether negotiations prior to the award of the contract protected the State’s position.

This is a report, which focuses on Initiatives being developed by the National Procurement Service (NPS) to provide better value in the procurement of goods and services. And Expenditure declared to have been undertaken in 2009 on foot of contracts entered into without recourse to competitive procurement processes. It also presents an analysis of the declared reasons why a competitive process was not followed in those cases.

This is a report into the circumstances of the ICT project terminations were reviewed to establish the extent of the write-offs involved, what value (if any) has been recovered from the project investments and what residual benefits of the projects remain.

This report has been compiled to provide an account of the expenditure declared to have been undertaken in 2008 on foot of contracts entered into without recourse to competitive procurement processes. It also presents an analysis of the declared reasons why a competitive process was not followed in those cases. The views of the National Procurement Public Policy Unit are set out and recent proposed changes to procurement procedures outlined.

This is a general overview of miscellaneous issues relating to Financial Management and a comparison between projected and actual outturn.