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Spend Report brings greater transparency and finds 95% of public procurement retained in state
From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
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From Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform
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The Minister of State with special responsibility for Public Procurement, Eoghan Murphy TD, today ( 08 September 2016) launched the Public Service Spend and Tendering Analysis 2014 Report
The report continues the work of the OGP in increasing openness and transparency on public expenditure by analysing data from across the public service on how public funds are spent on goods and services.
Welcoming the report, Minister of State Murphy said:
"This report analyses just under €4 billion or two-thirds of public procurement spend for 2014. The value of this work by the OGP is the transparency it brings to how money is spent. The data analysed indicates that 95% of the state’s expenditure is with firms within the state."
Noting that the majority of the spend analysed is with SMEs, Minister of State Murphy added:
“Public procurement is a major opportunity for SMEs. This report will provide businesses with a better understanding of where current and future opportunities lie. Equally important, in terms of SME access to government business, is the report’s highlighting that, in the majority of spend areas, the typical tender value is less €100,000.”
This Public Service Spend and Tendering Analysis for 2014 is the Office of Government Procurement’s (OGP) second annual report that analyses expenditure and tendering activity on goods across Public Service Bodies (PSBs) in Ireland.
One of the OGP’s strategic objectives is to improve the transparency of spend across public service bodies to support more effective sourcing strategies, procurement execution and value for money.
The spend analysis in this report is based on expenditure data that has been gathered from PSBs and excludes expenditure that is not addressable by public procurement such as third party grants or payments made by one public service body to another.
The procurement addressable spend, excluding major capital projects, under the remit of the OGP and its sourcing partners in the Health, Education, Local Government and Defence sectors is estimated at €6 billion annually.
Two-thirds of this estimated procurement addressable spend is analysed in this report.
The analysis of tendering activity is based on data from eTenders, the government’s national web-based electronic tendering platform administered by OGP, excluding semi-state organisations as these bodies are not under the procurement remit of the OGP and its sourcing partners.
Key findings of the Public Service Spend and Tendering Analysis 2014 Report: