Departmental Contracts (Hansard, 29 March 1993)

§ Mr. Goodlad

The tables list the contracts awarded by the diplomatic and aid wings of the Department for each of the last four years, and for the diplomatic wing in 1988–89. Information on contracts awarded by the aid wing in 1988–89 is not centrally recorded and could be provided only at disproportionate cost.Arthur Andersen (a) Diplomatic Wing No contracts awarded in last five years (b) Aid Wing One contract only, awarded in 1991–92 Project Finance and Development, Former Soviet Union 7 weeks duration; value £450,000 Andersen Consulting 79W (a) Diplomatic Wing No contracts awarded in the last five years (b) Aid Wing No contracts awarded in 1989–90 and 1990–91 Two contracts awarded in 1991–92

(i) Feasibility study, bread distribution Moscow 3 weeks duration; value £48,000
(ii) Bread distribution, Moscow 22 weeks duration; value £998,000

One contract awarded in 1992–93 Moscow bread project Phase II 9 months duration; value £245,000 K.P.M.G. Peat Marwick McLintock (a) Diplomatic Wing One contract awarded in 1988–89 Review of IT project management in FCO one months duration; value £5,000 One contract awarded in 1989–90 Review of Information Systems Division Training one months duration; value £14,000 No contracts awarded in 1990–91 Three contracts awarded in 1991–92

(i) Review of Information Systems Division Training Two months duration; value £22,000
(ii) Scrutiny on Training 3 weeks duration; value £15,000
(iii) Review of Career Planning 8 months duration; value £350,000

No contracts awarded in 1992–93 (b) Aid Wing

No contracts awarded in 1988–89
Two contracts awarded in 1989–90
(i) Public Service Commission, Zimbabwe 15 weeks duration; value £52,000
(ii) Economic Recovery Programme, Tanzania 14 weeks duration; value £72,000
Four contracts awarded in 1990–91
(i) Privatisation of the Ceska Insurance Company, Czechoslovakia 5 months duration; value £185,000
(ii) Public Service Review Phase 2, Guyana 6 months duration; value £812,000
(iii) Audit and Strategic Analysis of State Insurance Company, Poland 11 months duration; value £295,000
(iv) British Council Fee Rates, ODA 3 months duration; value £12,750
Six contracts awarded in 1991–92
(i) Insurance Division, Ministry of Finance, Poland
12 weeks duration; value £163,000
(ii) Civil Service Reform, Uganda
13 weeks duration; £262,000
(iii) Country Studies, climatic change: Ghana and Kenya 8 months duration; value £320,000
(iv) Public Service Review Phase IIB, Guyana 6 months duration; value £232,000
(v) Debt Reconciliation, Tanzania 3 months duration; value £100,000
(vi) Privatisation Study, Senegal 4 weeks duration; value £22,000
Nine contracts in 1992–93 (i) Agricultural Development Fund, Poland 6 months duration; value £92,000
(ii) Offshore Financial Services, St Kitts 2 months duration; value £49,000
(iii) Review of Services in OACD, ODA 3 months duration; value of £46,000
(iv) Singareni Colliery Spares Management and Incentives, India 12 weeks duration; value £163,000
(v) Procurement advice for Information Systems, Romania one weeks duration; value £4,500
(vi) Public Sector Reform Programme, Compensation Policy, Turks and Caicos Is 10 weeks duration; value £86,000
(vii) Public Sector Reform Programme: Training Review, Turks and Caicos Is 12 weeks duration; value £86,000
(viii) Market Testing, Natural Resources Institute 6 days duration; value £5,500
(ix) Development of Costing Module, Natural Resources Institute 6 days duration; value £5,500

Touche Ross (a) Diplomatic Wing No contracts awarded in the last five years (b) Aid Wing Two contracts awarded in 1989–90 (i) Assistance to Budapest Stock Exchange, Hungary 6 weeks duration; value £41,000 (ii) Environment—CFC Consultancy, India 3 months duration; value £165,000 Three contracts awarded in 1990–91 (i) Management plan for interim multilateral ozone fund 3 months duration; value £47,000 (ii) Budapest Stock Exchange, Hungary 6 weeks duration; value £41,000 (iii) Accountant, Privatisation Foundation, Poland 4 months duration; value £92,000 Five contracts awarded in 1991–92 (i) Economic Implications of Limiting CO² emissions, Zimbabwe 6 weeks duration; value £122,000 (ii) Climate Change Study, Romania 4 months duration; value £50,000 (iii) Privatisation of public enterprises, Zambia 8 months duration; value £36,000 (iv) New trading floor, Budapest Stock Exchange, Hungar 19 months duration; value £295,000 (v) Privatisation Adviser, Zambia 4 years duration; value £150,000 One contract awarded in 1992–93 Phasing out ozone depletion substances, Algeria 5 weeks duration; value £8,000 Ernst and Young (a) Diplomatic Wing

One contract awarded 1988–89 to 1989–90
Administrative and executive work on China
Claim Funds
2 years duration; value £2 million
One contract awarded in 1990–91 CRAMM
Review
9 months duration; value £20,000
One contract awarded in 1991–92
Advice on Heavy Baggage contract
3 months duration; value £17,000
One contract awarded in 1992–93 Overseas Estate
Procurement System
6 months duration; value £59,000

(b) Aid Wing No contracts awarded in 1989–90 Three contracts awarded in 1990–91 (i) Diagnostic studies of commercial banks, Poland 13 weeks duration; value £393,000 (ii) Privatisation assistance, Poland 6 months duration; value £225,000 (iii) Privatisation assistance, Czechoslovakia 7 months duration; value £475,000 Four contracts awarded in 1991–92 81W (i) Voucher privatization programme, Czechoslovakia 18 months duration; value £740,000 (ii) Voucher privatisation, secondary market study, Czechoslovakia 5 months duration; value £200,000 (iii) Privatisation Slovakia National Insurance Co., Czechoslovakia 11 months duration; value £223,000 Assistance with privatisation policy, Stage 2, Czechoslovakia 8 months duration; value £575,000 Two contracts awarded in 1992–93

(i) Voucher privatisation secondary market study, Phase 2, Czechoslovakia 5 months duration; value £175,000
(ii) Voucher privatisation, secondary market study, Czechoslovakia 5 months duration; value £200,000

Price Waterhouse (a) Diplomatic Wing Two contracts awarded in 1988–89 (i) Management of Finance IT Systems 12 months duration; value £513,000 (ii) Administrative and executive work on Russian Fund Claims 18 months duration; value £3 million One contract awarded in 1989–90 Maintenance of Finance IT Systems 4 years duration, to March 1993; value £758,000 No contracts awarded in 1990–91 and 1991–92 One contract awarded in 1992–93 Baselining Posts' Overseas Accounts System 6 months duration; value £71,000 (b) Aid Wing Five contracts awarded in 1989–90 (i) Budget and Official Development Studies, Ghana 21 weeks duration; value £159,000 (ii) Dead Sea Chemical, Economic and Financial Appraisal, Jordan 18 months duration; value £246,000 (iii) Customs and Excise Programme Improvement Study, Kenya 13 weeks duration; value £34,000 (iv) Lesotho Highlands Development Authority, Phase II, Lesotho 54 months duration; value £525,000 (v) Trade Investment Programme, Indonesia 100 weeks duration; value £137,000 Two contracts awarded in 1990–91 (i) Word Processing Equipment, UK 4 weeks duration; value £10,000 (ii) Institutional Review, Attorney General's Office, Zambia 3 months duration; value £71,000 One contract awarded in 1991–92 Organisation and Business Review, Agrobanka, Czechoslovakia2 months duration; value £39,000 Three contracts awarded in 1992–93

(i) Traffic Costing System, Kenya Railways 3 months duration; value £60,000
(ii) Department of Statutory Bodies, Malawi 20 months duration; value £250,000
(iii) Review of Pensions, Tanzania Railways 12 months duration; value £83,000