§ Mr. WillisTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what is the (a) number and (b) value of contracts let by his Department since May 1997 to external consultants and advisers for the management of competitive tendering processes. [109304]
§ Mr. LockThe information requested is as follows:
- (a) the number of contracts is 10
- (b) the value of the contracts is £1,415,385.
§ Mr. Don FosterTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department if he will list for the financial year 1998–99 the number and total value of contracts let by his Department with external consultants and advisers that have (a) been put out to competitive tender, (b) not been put out to competitive tender and (c) been let on a non-commercial basis, stating in each case the names of the individuals or organisations that have carried out the work. [109064]
§ Mr. LockThe information available is broken down in the table. In the time available the Public Records Office has only been able to provide the total number and value of the contracts let in each of the categories concerned.
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Departmental Contracts Department £ (a) Contracts that have been competitively tendered: LCD Donaldsons 12,484 Pricewaterhousecoopers (x2) 347,835 Managing Agents 71,384 Professor Richard Susskind 6,345 CCTA (x2) 4,673 Amtec Consulting 2,504 Parity Solutions 2,350 Management Partners 24,992 Syntegra 108,954 Myriad 60,657 458W
Departmental Contracts Department £ University of Birmingham 49,500 NB Selection 23,612 RSSM Ltd. 5,118 KPMG 94,599 16 contracts 815,007 Court Service Widnells 29,375 RADAR 15,334 Wheelers 34,803 Digital 4,911 Myriad (x3) 70,334 CCTA 6,766 Professor Richard Susskind 18,942 PA Consulting 32,101 Information Initiatives Ltd. (x5) 70,167 CSL Group Ltd. 577 Inbucon Ltd. 2,302 AMTEC Consulting Ltd. 9,400 18 contracts 295,012 Land Registry Syntegra 3,388 Bailey Partnership 801 Memorex Telex 1,064 Tower Technology 18,982 Lewis Productions 13,561 Jeremy Coyle Associates 93,096 Opinion Research 7,693 Development Partnership (x2) 3,007 Business Enhancement 907 10 contracts 142,499 Public Trust Office CCTA 1,973 Eurotek 11,171 G-Cat (x2) 28,125 K2 2,124 Myriad (x2) 167,917 One Zero 30,400 Parity (Trident) 16,296 Siemens Nixdorf 2,200 Workgroup 950 11 contracts 261,156 Northern Ireland Court Service Bird and Bird 166,000 Price Waterhouse (x2) 45,000 Citex Bucknall Austin 204,728 CCTA 8,249 5 contracts 423,977 Public Records Office BDL CCTA (x2) Crane Davies Diane Bailey Associates Elan Fretwell Downing Hedra Kite Logica Magna Consulting Marketing Alliance MMT MR Group PC Docs PCL Security Systems 17 contracts 548,409
Departmental Contracts Department £ (b) Not been put out to competitive tender: LCD Demograph 2,273 George Willman 5,525 Iaonann Management Consultants 3,513 Civil Service College 1,064 Focus Quality Services 4,200 Woodward Lewis Assoc. 2,186 Zeldon Health Ltd. (x2) 6,374 University of Surrey 6,000 Professor Gareth Jones 14,900 Mr. Burn 2,026 MDA 3,731 Website 5,288 Lorien plc 7,365 Plontikoff & Woolfson 2,937 Sir Graham Hart 5,850 Liberty 300 17 contracts 73,532 Court Service Hengstler Flexitime Ltd. 8,459 Sapphire International Ltd. 763 Public Sector Software 5,816 Judd Consultancy Services 7,500 MLI Ltd. 16,388 BMRB International 24,612 6 contracts 63,538 Land Registry Syntegra 1,673 Tenet Systems 118,314 Dunstan Thomas 30,017 IBM UK Ltd. 11,063 Scan Optics 595 IRC Europe 29,787 Law Society Publishing 12,500 Plain English Campaign 1,600 Tannerton Ltd. 3,568 E Quality 1,600 Catering Price Index 21,000 Saville & Holdsworth 5,069 Breckenridge 22,695 Claire Lefevre 4,945 Jill Totty 2,000 Joh Manthorpe 11,925 16 contracts 278,351 Public Trust Office British Telecommunications 99 Colt 750 Edis 11,228 3 contracts 12,077 Northern Ireland Court Service Helm Corporation 12,800 1 contract 12,800 Public Records Office Crawley Services J Geddes TFPL 3 contracts 28,581 (c) Non-commercial basis: Nil —