§ Mr. FlynnTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what is the cost to date and the expected future cost of his Department's market-testing programme; how many staff are engaged full-time in work relating to market364W testing; which firms of consultants have been used in connection with the market-testing programme; and how they were selected.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe cost of market testing in the Office of Public Service and Science and its agencies and Her Majesty's Stationery Office and the Central Office of Information from November 1991 to date have been £916,000. The estimated cost for the remainder of the current financial year is £1,102,000. There are eight staff currently engaged full-time on market testing.
The consultants who have been used by OPSS, its Agencies, HMSO or COI in connection with the market testing programme, and the method of their selection, is as follows:
- CDL Associates (competitive tender)
- Chris Goodall Associates (competitive tender)
- DMW (competitive tender)
- Ernst & Young (competitive tender)
- Ernst & Young (call-off contract)
- OSI (competitive tender)
- PA Consulting (competitive tender)
- Price Waterhouse (competitive tender)
- Shreeveport (single tender)
- Symonds Facilities Management (competitive tender)
- Touche Ross (competitive tender)