Edward Argar – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for International Development

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Edward Argar on 2016-05-05.

To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what proportion of her Department’s contracts for projects overseas were competitively tendered in each of the last three years.

Mr Desmond Swayne

90% of contracts awarded during 2013-14, 86% of contracts awarded during 2014-15 and 94% of contracts awarded during 2015-16 were competitively tendered. During this time-frame there were a number of contracts which are not deemed as competitively tendered.

Any programmes not competitively tendered are subject to Procurement management review.