§ Sir J. Mellorasked the Minister of Health whether he will specify the grounds upon which his Department is prepared to consider permitting a local authority to accept a tender other than the lowest tender?
§ Mr. ElliotWithout attempting to enumerate exhaustively the reasons which might properly justify the acceptance of a tender other than the lowest, I should be prepared to agree to the acceptance of such a tender if the local authority
2465Wsatisfied me that there were reasonable grounds for believing that the contractor who had submitted the lowest tender could not complete the work at the tender price without sacrifice of quality.