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Developing Countries: Contracts

Question for Department for International Development

UIN 36649, tabled on 5 May 2016

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.

Answered on

11 May 2016

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.