Quote from: LC on February 15, 2024, 06:55:34 PMQuote from: Derryman forever on February 15, 2024, 06:36:48 PMQuote from: LC on February 15, 2024, 06:07:27 PMIts gonna take a few £million just to clear the site.
I wonder how Stormont dodged the procurement rules on this.
Obviously some contractor is being handed a blank cheque and no doubt will fill their boots.
And: you know this:- or you are just saying?
Just saying.
Yes in private sector you can mobilise a contractor fairly quickly as it is your own money ultimately. Different ball game when it comes to public sector with the need for transparency and what not.
For all you know there could be a couple of government departments who need to shift capital money before the end of the year so this could be a win win for them.
Procurement law went out the window when Covid came, cant see Casement as being as critical though.
I'm not so sure on that...Private or Public sector is a minefield...Any big jobs such as Casement will have the big guns after it, it will have to be tendered with a PQQ first of all to eliminate the list down to usually 5 Contractors. Then the Principal Contractor will be selected from a team of different Professionals from Funding(Government Department), GAA, Consultant/Designer and a few more who will score each Tender based on price, experience, skills etc etc. Even then I have seen Contractors challenge the decision in Court and win their case...
Having said all of the above that's on normal schemes and Casement is def not normal, this scheme has went on for that long I lost interest in it a long time ago but there is something in the back of my wee pea brain telling me that there was a Contractor appointed for the scheme and they had to be paid a % as part of the Contract which went on for years but I think they may have either went tits up or pulled out...genuinely can't remember...For some strange reason the DUP guy over this wouldn't answer a question yesterday about if a Contractor had already been appointed. Basically a sh1t show.
My line of work involves large Civil Engineering schemes which have included stadium Designs so this had me really interested in all of this at the start but that dwindled as the years went on and lost interest in it, I also remember discussing Casement with one of the top Stadia Safety Officers in the Mainland UK who knew about the shambles of Casement from over there and knew all about their safety issues way back at the start. No one over the water wanted to know anything about this design for a reasons not to be discussed.