HC Deb 03 April 1990 vol 170 cc557-60W
Mr. Tim Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department 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. Waddington

[holding answer 28 March 1990]: The Home Office spent approximately £3,404,000 on management and computer consultancies, excluding hardware and software purchases, in 1989. The Home Office has budgeted to spend approximately £3,729,000 in the current year. The following contracts were awarded to management and computer consultants in 1989:

ABT Books Inc. Provision of Seminar
Admiral Accounting and Financial Management Information System
Admiral Computerised Course Control Project
Admiral Technical Assurance
Barton Fee for Membership of PNC Board
Batalas Quality Assurance
BBN Drugs Unit Experiment System
BIS Government Network Security
BIS Magistrates Court Contingency Planning
BIS LAFIS—Local Authority Financial Information System
BIS Structured Cabling
BIS Applied Systems BASIS Stores System
Bransom Development of Batch Retrieval Programs
British Print Federation Review of Production Control Procedures
CACI Household Occupancy re. Public Protection
Captain Hannant Standard System for Control of Police Aviation
Clark, Neville Consultancy on Quality Systems
Claymore Services Ltd. Provision of INFOMAP (Police Mapping Package) tutorial days
Clayton, J. K. Review of Voluntary Effort in Civil Defence
Cogitaire Review of Information Desk Computer Network Systems Requirement
Computer Sciences (CSC) Network Design
Computer Sciences (CSC) PNC2—Interim network
Cooper and Lybrand Review of the Suitability and Performance of PIMIS in the Glasgow and Liverpool Passport Offices
Data Logic Improved Man/Machine Interface For the Holmes (major enquiry) Project
Data Logic Local Area Network Strategy
Datasolve Technical Support for PNC2
Daton Systems Help Desk Consultancy
DBI Associates General Consultancy Support
Deloitte Haskins and Sells Warehousing and Distribution Study
DLP Consultancy Feasibility Study into Capacity Building and Networking of Voluntary Organisations
Dowty Fire Brigade Mobilisation communications
Eosys Police National Network
Ernst and Young Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Requirement
Ernst and Young A Review of the Management and Funding of the Community Transport's Central Administration Unit
Ewbank Reece Microwave Communications
Grafton Provision of Staff for Application Development Team
Iliffe, A. Esq. Production of Selection Test Item Block
ISL Finance Information System
JSB Computer Systems POLINDEX—Animal Experiment Index
Kermon Associates HOUSE—Strategic UNIX Project
Kermon Associates Procurement Workshop
Kermon Associates Project Management
Lawrence and Lawrence PNC Board Member/Attendance at Committees
Leicester Polytechnic Criminal Statistics Profiling
Logica Fire Brigade Mobilisation and Control
Logica Suspect Index
Management Exchange, The Project Management Course for PRSU Police Officers
McDonald Associates Design of Counselling Training Modules
National Centre for Information Technology Production of an Advisory Booklet to Police Forces
Oracle Commissioning and Configuration of SRDB's Oracle Accounting System
Oracle Further Tailoring work of SRDB's Accounting Software
Oracle Magistrate's Courts' Standard Specification
PA Police National Computer Replacement Project
PA Project Management
PA Consulting Data flows in the CJS
PA Consulting Management Review of Forensic Science Service
PA Consulting Prison Service Organisation Review
PA Consulting Provision of Project Support Office Staff
Paradis Fingerprint Imagery
PE Inbucon Issue of TV Licenses and Saving Stamps by the Post Office
Philo, G. Esq. Drafting Management Selection Exercise
Price Waterhouse Options for the Privatisation of the Terrestrial Transmission Service in the United Kingdom
REDE Quality Assurance Programme
Recognition Research Recognition Research
St. George's Medical School TICTAC—Pill Identification
S D Europe Study into Police Use of Aircraft
Skills With People Overview of Four Race Relations Projects
Smith Associates Study into the Evalution of Maintenance Options
Smith Associates Evaluation of Tender Responses
Software AG Technical Management
Software Services Immigration Service Intelligence Unit
Sopwell House Subsidiary fees for ABT Books
Sudbury Consultants Leadership Training
System Assurance Security Review
Touche Ross Financial and Management Accountancy System
Touche Ross Police National Computer Replacement Project
Touche Ross Management Accounting System
Touche Ross Management Information Strategy
Touche Ross Professional Advice in Project Management
Touche Ross Strategy Study
TSC Limited Software Support for Operational Development
University of Aberdeen EFIT—Face Recognition
Watts, Reginald Marketing of Fire Service College
Yale Data HOUSE—Strategic UNIX Project
Yale Data Feasibility Study