§ Mr. Tim SmithTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total amount spent by his Department in 1989 on management and computer consultancy contracts, excluding hardware and software purchases; if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by his Department in 1989, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment; and what is the total amount that his Department has budgeted to spend in the current year.
§ Mr. MaudeWe estimate that our expenditure in the financial year 1989–90 on management and computer consultancy will be:
£ Management consultancy 232,100 Computer consultancy 1,691,710 Individual contracts awarded during the year were:
Management consultancies
- W. S. Atkins Energy Limited—Energy survey
- MWH Project Services Limited—Refurbishment project
- The Anne Shaw organisation—Review of car pool
- Pergamon Technical Services—Revision of regulations
- Coopers and Lybrand—Study of Personnel Department
- Coopers and Lybrand—Entry clearance study
- Market and Opinion Research International—Staff communications Survey
- Duhig Berry Limited—Scoping study of Project Support Office
Computer consultancies
- BIS Applied Systems Limited—Systems Development
- Casu Electronics Limited—Systems Development
- Logica UK Limited—Requirements Analysis
- The Instruction Set Limited—Requirement Analysis
- Price Waterhouse—Project Management
- BRS Europe—Systems Development
- Software Sciences Limited—Systems Development/Training Consultancy
- Infosound Limited—Training Aids
- Secure Information Systems Limited—Systems Strategy
- Towngate Software Limited—Systems Development
- Technological Solutions Limited—Programming
- Praxis Systems plc—Systems Analysis and Design/Project Management
- Applied Learning International Limited—Training Aids
- Management Systems Development Limited—Feasibility Study/Systems Development
- Casu Europe Limited—Systems Development
- SCICON—FOLIOS Development
- Duhig Berry Limited—Project Control Systems
- Computer Learning Centre Limited—Traning Aids
- Ashford Associates Limited—Post-Implementation Review
- Softlab Limited—Risk Analysis
- Kinesis Computing Limited—Systems Development
- Mega Consultancy—Building and Cabling Works
- Absolute Solutions—Technical Documentation
- Digitus—Systems Development
- System Assurance Limited—Strategy Support
- PA Limited—Organisational Issues
- P + P Corporate Systems Limited—Systems Development
- NCR Limited—Systems Development
- BOS Software Limited—Systems Development
There is no specific budgetary provision of management consultancy for the financial year 1990–91, but our present estimated expenditure is £37,500. The budget for computer consultancy is £1,430,000.