❓ Hon Peter Collier questions the Minister for Regional Development regarding the termination of the Carnegie Clean Energy contract for the Albany Wave Energy Project, specifically if the project would have proceeded had Carnegie not applied, given the perceived unsuitability of other applicants.
AnsweredQoN 189Legislative Council
QuestionView source ↗
ALBANY WAVE ENERGY PROJECT
— CARNEGIE CLEAN ENERGY — TENDER PROCESS
189. Hon PETER COLLIER to the Minister for Regional Development:
My question relates to the minister's
decision to terminate the Carnegie Clean Energy contract. I refer the minister
to her response to question without notice 166 on 14 March, in which she states
—
It
is one thing to satisfy the technical requirements of a tender; it is another
to make an assessment that this is a model that would be viable. That was the
advice that we got from the department both at the stage when the department advised that the recommendation
was that Carnegie was the best application and subsequently when we were looking at what strategies might be
available to us. The assessment of those officers involved in assessing the
tender was that they did not believe that the other applications were strong
enough.
If Carnegie had withdrawn its
application or not put in an application, would the project have gone ahead at
all, given that none of the remaining applicants was deemed to be suitable,
even though they met the technical requirements of the tender?
— CARNEGIE CLEAN ENERGY — TENDER PROCESS
189. Hon PETER COLLIER to the Minister for Regional Development:
My question relates to the minister's
decision to terminate the Carnegie Clean Energy contract. I refer the minister
to her response to question without notice 166 on 14 March, in which she states
—
It
is one thing to satisfy the technical requirements of a tender; it is another
to make an assessment that this is a model that would be viable. That was the
advice that we got from the department both at the stage when the department advised that the recommendation
was that Carnegie was the best application and subsequently when we were looking at what strategies might be
available to us. The assessment of those officers involved in assessing the
tender was that they did not believe that the other applications were strong
enough.
If Carnegie had withdrawn its
application or not put in an application, would the project have gone ahead at
all, given that none of the remaining applicants was deemed to be suitable,
even though they met the technical requirements of the tender?
AnswerView source ↗
That is a hypothetical. If there
were no suitable applications—if there were no applications that we
believed would be capable of delivering the project—I presume we would
not have proceeded, but this is a hypothetical situation. We went out to tender. We got applications in. We
assessed them. We were recommended to select a particular tender . We
were told that that tender was far stronger than the other tenders involved in
the project. That was the advice.
Hon Peter Collier : Three
others met the criteria!
The PRESIDENT : Order!
Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN :
Member, you have been asking this question over and again. I went back to the
department and said, ''Can you check the answers that I have been giving
to these questions without notice? Do they accurately reflect the
recommendations that you made?'' I have been advised time and again,
yes.
were no suitable applications—if there were no applications that we
believed would be capable of delivering the project—I presume we would
not have proceeded, but this is a hypothetical situation. We went out to tender. We got applications in. We
assessed them. We were recommended to select a particular tender . We
were told that that tender was far stronger than the other tenders involved in
the project. That was the advice.
Hon Peter Collier : Three
others met the criteria!
The PRESIDENT : Order!
Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN :
Member, you have been asking this question over and again. I went back to the
department and said, ''Can you check the answers that I have been giving
to these questions without notice? Do they accurately reflect the
recommendations that you made?'' I have been advised time and again,
yes.
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