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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 166 asked in the Legislative Council on 14 March 2019 by Hon Peter Collier

Parliament: 40 Session: 1

ALBANY WAVE ENERGY PROJECT — CARNEGIE CLEAN ENERGY —TENDER PROCESS

166. Hon PETER COLLIER to the Minister for Regional Development:

My question relates to the minister's decision to terminate the Carnegie contract. I refer to the minister's response to Legislative Assembly question on notice 4826, in which she stated that of the five submissions, four proponents had met the tender requirements for the wave power contract, and her response to question without notice 145, which I asked yesterday, in which she said that the reason that none of the remaining three companies that met the requirements would now be offered the opportunity to take over the contract was that ''the quality of the applications of the other tenderers was not up to the standard of Carnegie.''

Given that three companies met the required tender guidelines, why were these guidelines ignored when the minister made the decision not to proceed with the project and based her decision purely on a comparison with Carnegie?

Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN replied:

I thank the member for the question. 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. But, as I say, there is a big difference between satisfying the technical requirements and meeting the standards that government might want to enter into a partnership.