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These Directives co-ordinate the processes and procedures that must be followed when awarding public contracts for goods, services, works and utilities."
Some people who make an initial inquiry to the committee might not follow the process through. Is there a way of capturing the details of those people?
The Executive has said of the guidance:"There is no compulsion to follow it if other factors in particular circumstances make it reasonable not to follow it."
That has not been done before and the lack of such information has bedevilled the political arguments. I would like to follow up on that point, and to put on a more parochial hat for a moment.