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The Prime Minister
The management and computer consultancy contracts awarded by the Cabinet Office, in the calendar year 1987, are as follows:
| Firm |
Assignment |
| BGM Consultants |
Identification of core skills in clerical grades |
| Diane Bailey Associates |
Preparation of a Stress Management Training Pack |
| ITS Ltd |
Guide to conducting Training Reviews |
| Systems Concepts Ltd |
Training Information Communications Study—Feasibility Study |
| John Childs |
Training Information Communications Study—Customer needs survey |
469W
| Firm |
Assignment |
| Anne Hughes Hallet |
Research on undergraduate attitudes to a career in HM Tax Inspectorate |
| B. O'Connor |
Selection procedure design (engineer recruitment) |
| National Foundation for Educational Research |
Aptitude test analysis |
| PE Consulting Services |
Study into future development of the Civil Service College Administrative Computer System |
| Centre for Training and Evaluation Studies |
Evaluation of the self instruction training package for the new staff appraisal system |
| Richard Williams |
Equal Opportunities monitoring project |
| Business Research Unit |
Evaluation of staff attitudes to the new staff appraisal system |
| Crow Associates |
Research on computers in personnel management |
| Keith Robertson |
Consultancy for the 'Managing Absence' project |
| Diane Bailey Associates |
Survey on presentation of Occupational Welfare Service to management and staff in the Civil Service |
| Institute of Manpower Studies |
Advice on manpower planning and computers in personnel |
| John Rowley |
Production of guidelines for managers and trade unionists on job satisfaction projects and a summary of the guidelines for staff |
| W. O'Keefe |
Study of purchasing and stores activities (Cabinet Office) |
| Hay Management Consultants |
A study of the feasibility of short service assignments in the Science Group |
| Purchasing Index (UK) Ltd1 |
Development of the Central Unit on Purchasing database |
| Frank Griffiths Associates1 |
Advice in connection with the Institute of Civil Engineers review of conditions of contract |
| R W White1 |
Review of arrangements for Purchasing and Supply function in Government |
| Name of firm |
Assignment |
| CMG Information Systems: |
Development of a new Administrative Computer System for Her Majesty's Inspectorate. |
| CCTA: |
Education Information study. |
| Research Services Limited: |
Undergraduate income and expenditure survey. |
| Coopers and Lybrand: |
Advice on financial delegation to schools. |
| Peat Marwick Mitchell & Co: |
Review of the preparation and production of inspection reports. |
| Spicer and Pegler Associates: |
Review of accounting procedures at one of the Department's grant-aided bodies. |
| Deloitte Haskins and Sells: |
Financial management advice and assistance to the University Grants Committee. |
| Deloitte Haskins and Sells: |
Review of audit controls over teachers' pensions (payments and contributions). |
| Loughborough Consultants Limited: |
Analysis of universities' responses to the Jarratt report. |
| BIS Applied Systems Limited: |
Office Systems Strategy-telecommunications study. |
470W
| Firm |
Assignment |
| E R Farnbridge and C Evans1 |
Review of Supply and Service Agreements between departments and the Central Purchasing Agencies |
| DF Collins1 |
Advice on Written Guidance |
| 1 Costs for these studies were shared with other Government Departments. |