Hardly surprising though
Whats the name of the company that got it?
Executive Helicopters from Galway.
It would, yet the tender process would have to be transparent under EU Public Procurement Guidelines.
You would think that, but anything with this government is suspicious. Does a certain billionaire own shares or recently purchase shares in this company.
Doubt it would be lucrative enough for him.
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The tendering process is a load of bollix. Those in the know always know what figure will win it
The lowest price generally.
Theres only two directors listed. Looks like a husband and wife team. Dont know if there are any links or not. But youd imagine if there was, it would be out there by now
Not necessarily.
Hence the generally comment.
The bottom line is a company who operated the routes are unhappy because they lost out under a Public Tender process, which I am sure was advertised on Etenders and possibly OJEU.
From my experience it would be extremely difficult to manipulate the process and of course Aer Arann have the right to appeal if they feel anything untoward was going on.
I dont know enough about this particular case. However it is not always the case that the lowest tender wins. General agreements such as service levels, Kpi, and all that shit have to be submitted as well. Sometimes the lowest tender will not be able to adhere to these requirements and will subsequently not get the gig.
Now it could well be that the minister in question did not have any option but to go ahead with the tender process. However from a purely political perspective it was shit timing
What’s your problem?
In this instance price was 20% of the available marks, qualitative criteria made up the other 80%. The winning company were referred to as the preferred tenderer.
Aer Arann lost a competitive tender and have a mechanism for appeal if they feel something is wrong with the process.
The Attorney General gets a fair going over in The Times today. Apparently she was called before Fennelly 4 times to clarify contradictions in her story and she changed her statements on key facts a number of times.
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That’s women for you.
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You can be full sure to Shatter aint going to let this lie
The fact that shatter even has skin in this game after all his misdeeds is a damning indictment on FG
Yea
But Kenny owed him after the leadership battle. Let him off scot free and only pulled the trigger when he felt Shatters behaviour was going to put his own position in jeopardy. Its now looking like he pulled the trigger too early and Shatter is going to go for the jugular
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Callinan shredding 10 bags of papers and notes is surely highly dubious as well
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