§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
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§ Mr. RifkindContracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software have been awarded to the following companies:
Year and Company
1984–85
- IBM (UK) Ltd.
- Information Technology Ltd.
1985–86
- IBM (UK) Ltd.
- Olivetti
- AES Data
- Wordplex
1986–87
- IBM (UK) Ltd
- Computerland
- Microcentre
- City Business Computers
- MBS Computer Services
- ICL
- Wordplex
The total value of contracts awarded was £1,519,860.
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing hardware and (b) word processing software in each year since 1984; and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
§ Mr. RifkindMy Department has spent the following sums on word processing hardware and software since 1984:
Year Cost £ (a)Word processing Hardware 1984–85 494,725 1985–86 320,776 1986–87 595,035 (b)Word Processing Software 1984–85 27,747 1985–86 35,337 1986–87 46,240 Expenditure is projected for 1987–88 and 1988–89 as follows:
Hardware Software £ £ 1987–88 200,436 16,584 1988–89 29,951 20,914
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list those companies to which his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of desk top publishing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
§ Mr. RifkindContracts for the supply of desk top publishing hardware and software have been awarded to Rank Xerox in each of the years 1984–85, 1985–86 and 1986–87 to a total value of £99,000.
§ Mr. Coombsasked the Secretary of State for Scotland how much his Department has spent on (a) desk top 270W publishing hardware and (b) desk top publishing software in each year since 1984; and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
§ Mr. RifkindMy Deprtment has spent the following sums on desk top publishing hardware and software since 1984:
Year Cost £ (a)Desk top publishing hardware 1984–85 59,167 1985–86 17,168 1986–87 17,782 (b)Desk top publishing software 1984–85 890 1985–86 1,780 1986–87 748 Projected expenditure for the financial year 1987–88 is nil and for 1988–89 is £20,000.