HC Deb 30 March 1990 vol 170 cc335-6W
Mr. Tim Smith

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport 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. Atkins

[holding answer 28 March 1990]: We estimate that our expenditure in the financial year 1989–90 will be £4.0 million. A list of contracts awarded is in the table. The provisional budget for the financial year 1990–91 is £3.5 million.

Comprehensive records of all contracts with consultancy firms are not held centrally. It would be disproportionately expensive to collect all the information required. The list identifies those management and computing consultancies which began in 1989–90 and are valued at £10,000 or more:

  • Firm and Subject of Assignment
  • W. S. Atkins—NIS Lighting Systems
  • W. S. Atkins—CHART, DEFLEC and CHAPS Programmes
  • BIS Applied Systems—Projects management feasibility study
  • S. G. Bisson—GWR enhancements
  • CACI—NIS Stage 2 Training
  • Civic Trust—Traffic regeneration
  • Coopers & Lybrand—Executive Agency (DVL)
  • Coopers & Lybrand—Management development (DVL)
  • DDI—Site collection system maintenance
  • Easams—NIS Database administration
  • Geografix—NIS Video Survey
  • Howard Humphreys—NatStr Database administration
  • IBM—IT Strategy (DVL)
  • Ian Catlin—Autoguide demonstration
  • Information Partnership—Review of TRRL Library Services
  • KPMG—NIS Configuration Management
  • LOGICA—NIS Video/Computer Interface
  • Mindworks—Business Analysis Support
  • Peat Marwick—NaRIS Post-implementation Review
  • Peat Marwick—Design and implementation of IFCOS Accounting System
  • Peat Marwick—IFCOS Integration (DTT/DSA)
  • Price Waterhouse—Management Training
  • Rendell Palmer Tritton—Bridge Maintenance System-Feasibility Study
  • Rendell Palmer Tritton—Streetworks Register
  • Software AG—IT Development (DVL)
  • Thompson Systems—SUNACCOUNT/IFCOS Interface
  • Transportation Planning Association—Pavement Parking
  • Wootton Jeffreys—Maintenance and Enhancement of COBA 9 and QUADRO 2
  • Wootton Jeffreys—URECA Maintenance and Enhancement
  • Wyndham Leigh—Sale of Vehicle Registrations Marks.