A lawyer-led review was prompted by a BBC documentary into the Ferguson ferries controversy.
A lawyer-led investigation prompted by BBC claims that a controversial ferry deal may have been rigged has found no evidence of fraud.
Mr Smith was subsequently engaged by CMAL to establish whether those allegations amounted to "fraud". The document, the Specification of Operational and Technical Requirements , had been supplied to a design consultant Houlder which did some work for CMAL early in the procurement, and which was subsequently engaged by FMEL as its main design partner.
He also looked into a BBC claim that FMEL was allowed to significantly change its design, six weeks after the deadline for bid submissions. A spokesperson for the corporation said: "The BBC declined to take part in this review after it became clear Mr Smith's terms of reference, which had been agreed by CMAL, explicitly excluded the central allegations made in our film.
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