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Fri 03 Mar 2009€100m prison contracts did not go to full tender
THE COMPTROLLER and Auditor General John Buckley has launched an investigation after the Department of Justice and Irish Prison Service awarded contracts worth €100 million to a construction company despite only one €4.7 million project going to tender, it has emerged.
One of the projects not put out for tender was a €21 million 64-cell block at Castlerea Prison, Co Roscommon. Another four contracts were worth between €5 million and €6 million each.
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