HC Deb 03 June 1991 vol 192 cc47-8W
Mr. McAllion

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what was the total amount spent by his Department in the 1990–91 financial year on management and computer consultancy contracts, excluding hardware and software purchases; and if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by his Department in 1990–91, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm, the subject of the assignment and, if appropriate, the executive agency for which the contract was carried out.

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

the total spent by the diplomatic and aid wings of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on both management and computer consultancy contracts in the 1990–91 financial year was £3,068,317.

Individual contracts awarded during the year were:

Management consultancies:

AID WING

Alex Sutherland

  • Review of procedures manual

Mr. Fowler

  • Review of personnel policy

DIPLOMATIC WING

  • M. Armstrong and Associates Personnel policy
  • Coopers and Lybrand Personnel policy
  • Peat Marwick Training scrutiny support
  • Pergamon Technical Services Revision of diplomatic service procedure

Computer consultancies:

AID WING

  • BIS Applied Systems Ltd. Requirements analysis
  • Enever Systems Systems development
  • Exec Systems Ltd. Systems development
  • Orac Information Systems Ltd. Data transfer
  • Price Waterhouse Requirements analysis

DIPLOMATIC WING

  • Admiral Computing Ltd. Scoping study
  • Admiral Management Services Project management, systems control
  • BIS Applied Systems Ltd. Systems development
  • BRS (Europe) Ltd.
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  • System repair, training

Casu Electronics Ltd.

  • Training, maintenance

CCTA

  • Systems maintenance
  • Churchill Software Ltd. Training
  • Computer Learning Centre Training
  • Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte Systems reports
  • Database Systems Systems development
  • Digitus Systems development
  • Duhig Berry Ltd. Requirements analysis
  • Ernst & Young Ltd. Systems review
  • Express Computers Ltd. Systems Development
  • IBM (UK) Ltd. Systems Development
  • Infosound Ltd. Training
  • Infotach Marketing Systems support and development
  • James Duncan & Associates Training
  • Kinesis Computing Ltd. Training
  • Logica UK Ltd. Cabling standards study, systems development
  • Management Systems Development Systems support and development
  • Mega Consultancy Buildings infrastructure study
  • NCR Ltd. Work profiles
  • Praxis Systems PLC Requirements analysis
  • Price Waterhouse Programming
  • Roche Consulting PLC Capacity planning study
  • Softlab Ltd. Risk analysis
  • Systems Assurance Ltd. Strategy support
  • Technological Solutions Ltd. Systems maintenance
  • The Instruction Set Software support, data transfer, systems development, requirement analysis
  • Towngate Software Ltd. Training
  • Transaction Point Ltd. Project support
  • Wang UK Ltd. Training

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