Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021

An Bille um Cháilíocht i Sainfháil Phoiblí (Conarthaí a Ullmhú agus Critéir Dhámhachtana), 2021

Public Bill 32/2021 · Status: Defeated · Most recent stage: Second Stage

  1. First Stage
  2. Second Stage
  3. Committee Stage
  4. Report Stage
  5. Fifth Stage
  6. Enacted

Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 and for that purpose to provide for contract award criteria in public contracts, to promote the use of social considerations and the best price-quality ratio and to establish a procedure for departing from best price-quality ratio, to ensure that section 3 of the European Convention on Human Rights Act 2003 applies to every contracting authority to which the said Directive relates in respect of a contract equal to or greater than a determinable monetary threshold, to provide for the issuing of guidelines concerning social considerations, to require annual reporting to each House of the Oireachtas concerning certain matters and to provide for matters connected therewith.

Official bill record

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Divisions on this bill

Votes recorded in Dáil debate sections the official record links to this bill. A vote on an amendment or a stage is a vote on that question, not on the bill as a whole.

DateStage / sectionSubjectOutcomeResult
2026-02-18 Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." Lost Tá 62 · Níl 78 · Staon 0

Debate history

Debate sections the official record links to this bill (both Houses).

DateStage
2026-02-18Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members]
2026-02-12Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members]
2022-12-13Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages
2022-05-18Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Order for Committee Stage
2022-05-18Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Committee Stage
2021-03-26Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: Second Stage
2021-03-08Quality in Public Procurement (Contract Preparation and Award Criteria) Bill 2021: First Stage