World Rugby representatives have concluded a two day visit to Fiji where they inspected venues, hotels and other facilities under consideration by the Fiji Rugby Union as part of its bid for the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series.
Head of Competitions and Performance, Mark Egan was joined by General Manager of High Performance, Peter Horne for the inspection visit which was supervised by FRU CEO John O’Connor and the bid task team executives Brian Thorburn and Greg Peters.
Egan says the visit offered them an opportunity to review progress made by the FRU in preparing their World Sevens Series bid and also to answer any questions that the bid team had regarding the tender process, the tournament delivery requirements, commercial and financial matters.
He says a very experienced and capable bid team is in place and it is obvious that they have a solid understanding of the requirements and they are making good progress in preparing the FRU bid submission.
Egan says they are looking forward to receiving the final document at the end of February and he has every confidence that the FRU will submit a professional and robust bid that will seek to meet all the World Rugby requirements.
FRU CEO John O’Connor says their taskforce has completed considerable work in preparing for the bid submission and the visit by World Rugby was timely in receiving feedback in a range of areas.
O’Connor says they inspected venues, hotels, observed prospective training sites and engaged with the FRU team in relation to many matters and thanked them for taking the time to visit and assist FRU with the preparations.
O’Connor adds they still have a lot of work to do but they remain on track to submit their bid at the end of February.
