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This report presents the findings of an examination of the emergency procurement of ventilators by the Health Service Executive in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. The report recommends that the Department of Public Expenditure NDP Delivery and Reform/Office of Government Procurement consider developing practical guidance for public bodies on the use of advance payments.

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.

This is a report on the creation of a National Procurement Service and subsequent goals of the body.

This report examines property management associated with the decentralisation programme. The programme was substantially curtailed from October 2008. The audit sought to review the implications for OPW’s property management in the now prevailing market conditions and taking account of the conditions prevailing at the time property transactions were effected, to review the value achieved in the acquisition of property for the programme. In doing so the audit relied on both internal OPW benchmarking and an independent review by property consultants engaged by my Office.

This is a report on the examination of the River Nore (Kilkenny City) Drainage Scheme, humanitarian aid for Flood Relief of Dublin City, administered by the Irish Red Cross and the Procurement Procedures in Dublin Castle OPW Unit for the EU Presidency.

This is a report on the review of the contracts in place with the providers of state subsidised transport services to the Islands the determination of correct tendering procedures had been followed in the awarding of contracts in the period 1997 to 2001, the verification that the services contracted for are actually being provided and the establishment that adequate financial management and control procedures are being exercised by the funding organisations.

This is a report to ascertain and evaluate the actions taken and the procedures put in place to provide for the taking of the 2001 census of population, to examine and evaluate the specific procedures followed in placing contracts for goods and services, in reacting to unforeseen events and in protecting the State’s interest and to ascertain the cost of the project and evaluate the efficacy of the financial controls in operation.

This is a report examining the measures in place providing disabled access and the purchase of the Battle of the Boyne Site.