Tendering rules ‘set aside’ to speed up Waterford project

Waterford’s city manager has said his organisation deliberately set aside tendering rules in order to deliver a new multimillion-euro visitor centre on time.

City manager Michael Walsh said there was no question of companies getting work on the basis of favouritism and that he believed the city council still got value for money.

Mr Walsh accepted the findings in an internal auditor’s report that found a significant number of cases where proper procurement procedures were not followed.