Partenaire Limited v Department of Finance and Personnel
| Jurisdiction | Northern Ireland |
| Judge | Coghlin J |
| Judgment Date | 23 November 2007 |
| Neutral Citation | [2007] NIQB 100 |
| Court | Queen's Bench Division (Northern Ireland) |
| Date | 23 November 2007 |
| Year | 2007 |
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Neutral Citation no. [2007] NIQB 100 Ref:
COGF5968
Judgment: approved by the Court for handing down Delivered:
23/11/07
(subject to editorial corrections)*
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND
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QUEEN’S BENCH DIVISION
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BETWEEN:
PARTENAIRE LIMITED
Plaintiff;
-and-
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND PERSONNEL
Defendant.
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COGHLIN J
[1] This is an application on behalf of Partenaire Limited (“the applicant”)
seeking an order extending the interim injunction granted by order of
Weatherup J on 1 August 2007 in accordance with the terms of which the
procurement process conducted by the Department of Finance and Personnel
(“the Department”) and known as Workplace 2010 was stayed and the
Department restrained from proceeding to the Best and Final Offer (“BAFO”)
stage.
The background facts
[2] Workplace 2010 (“WP 2010”) is a major long-term programme aimed at
transforming and rationalising the Northern Ireland Civil Service (“NICS”)
office estate. WP 2010 is a component of the long-term Investment Strategy
for Northern Ireland the objective of which is to remedy the infrastructure
deficit in Northern Ireland and to improve the quality of delivery of public
services by introducing efficiency across the public sector. The first phase of
WP 2010 is the refurbishment and rationalisation of a substantial part of the
NICS office estate. A report known as the Strategic Development Plan in 2004
indicated that much of the office estate was in a poor state of repair, that the
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