4 We collected information from the following sources:
■ A review of the Agency's project management papers, bidders' submissions and of the legal agreements underpinning the deal;
■ Interviews with members of the Agency's Project Team, officials and advisers, on how they handled the negotiation of the deal;
■ Interviews with the Department's user representatives, whose main role in the procurement was to represent users' requirements to the Project Board and project team;
■ A questionnaire sent to each of the 14 organisations that had responded in detail to the Agency's invitation to express interest, (results are summarised at Appendix 5); and
■ Discussions with each of the three short-listed bidders.