Appendix 1  Key stages during the procurement process

Date

 

Key event

 

 

 

October 1996

Market-sounding exercise

 

 

 

August 1997

Notice in Official Journal of European Communities (OJEC)

 

 

 

October 1997

Outline Business Case

 

 

 

December 1997

Invitation to Negotiate

 

 

 

April 1998

Bids received by the Service

 

 

 

December 1998

Full Business Case

 

 

 

February 1999

Contract Signed

 

 

 

December 2001

Laganside Courts delivered to the Service

 

 

 

February 2002

Laganside Courts become operational