§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 27 April,Official Report, column 373, if he will list those publications, in addition to the Official Journal of the European Community, in which invitations are routinely published for construction companies to tender for work on the overseas diplomatic estate.
§ Mr. Goodlad[pursuant to his reply, 14 May 1993, c. 624]: Herewith the corrected version, omitting the first sentence.
Invitations to tender are not routinely published. It is our policy to invite tenders from construction companies short-listed after pre-selection procedures.
§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, pursuant to his answer of 27 April,Official Report, column 373, how often, and in what format, the further information about a wider range of projects to which he refers is circulated to the Export Group for the Construction Industry; if that information includes all opportunities for work on the overseas diplomatic estate, or only selected opportunities for such work; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. Goodlad[pursuant to his reply, 14 May 1993, c. 623]: Herewith the corrected version, omitting the first sentence.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office sends a list about once a year to the Export Group for the Construction Industries of key details about planned projects likely to be of interest to United Kingdom construction companies and of an estimated value above a stated threshold. For 1983–86 the threshold was £250,000; for 1987–89, £500,000; and since 1990, £1 million. The latest list will be sent within the next few weeks.