Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice (VEAT) in respect of the proposed award of a contract to a designated supplier for the provision of payroll software services to the Houses of the Oireachtas Service

Article 32(2)(b)(ii) of Directive 2014/24/EU, that is to say: ‘The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases...where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by

a particular economic operator for any of the following reasons...competition is absent for technical reasons....’ as elaborated on by Recital 50 to that Directive, and effect to which is given in Irish law by Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) of th