§ Mr. Alan HowarthTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment if she will list the contracts awarded by her Department to(a) EDS, (b) Andersens, (c) BMI, (d) Capita and (e) Sema since 1992, and the broad function to be carried out by the contractor and the value of the contract in each case. [17599]
§ Mr. Robin SquireThe list of contracts awarded by the Department for Education and Employment and the Employment Service is as follows:
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EDS Costs £ The Government catalogue of IT supplies 207,000 Software supply to Students Loan Company (1989–95) 13,000,000 IT Human Factors risk analysis 5,000 Andersens Systems analysis on Employment Services Payments project 296,000
EDS Costs£ Interface development between ES systems and NUBS2 77,500 Cobol programming support £33,500 Systems design on Employment Services Payments system 350,000 Job Seekers Allowance project, implementation risk analysis 88,000 Job Seekers Allowance project, expert implementation assistance 12,245,000 Supply and support Optical Character Recognition system for the 1993 Census of employment 4,000,000 BMI There are no contracts recorded with a company called BMI Capita Consultancy on market testing of payroll 25,000 Nursery Vouchers pilot scheme 450,000 Nursery Vouchers national implementation 15,000,000 Contractorisation of Teachers Pensions Agency 72,000,000 Sema Ingres database design work 31,800 Database design work £44,400 Job Seekers Allowance, expert implementation assistance 12,500 Information exchange and dissemination study 57,000 Human resource management systems feasibility study 4,750 1 Per annum.