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Home Office

Answer

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many contracts in his Department have been granted to (a) EDS, (b) Fujitsu and (c) EDS and Fujitsu jointly in each of the last two years; whether they were open to competition; for what they were granted; for how much, and over what period of time; and if he will make a statement. [211620] Fiona Mactaggart: (a) The Home Office has not awarded any contracts to EDS in the financial years 2002-03, 2003-04 or 2004-YTD. (b) Information held by the Home Office on contracts awarded to Fujitsu in the financial years 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2004-YTD is as follows: NCIS awarded two consultancy contracts to Fujitsu following a competitive tender exercise under the OGC S-CAT Framework Agreement. Details are as follows: April 2002-September 2003 Project Mercury--which was a project to deliver the roll out of windows 2000 across NCIS. The total amount of expenditure over the period with Fujitsu for their delivery of services to the project was £597,375. A feasibility study for a fire arms tracking database over 2002-03 was commissioned but this was funded via Concerted Inter-agency Drug Action (CIDA) totalling £32,630. (three month project February 2003-April 2003) The Commercial Directorate placed two orders for various IT hardware via the G-CAT framework on behalf of the National Technical Assistance Centre (NTAC): 21 October 2002. Total value including VAT: £92,217. 01 July 2003. Total value including VAT: £6,286. The Commercial Directorate awarded a consultancy contract for the production of Test and Validation Strategy for Mental Health Unit (MHU) Case-working Application on behalf of the Information Management and Technology Unit (IMTU). This was competed via the S-CAT framework, details are as follows: Purchase Order: PO4390201 Award of contract: 07 September 2004 Delivery on/by 15 September 2004 Total value including VAT: £9,743. The Commercial Directorate placed an order for various IT hardware via the Suspect Index (S.I.) Supply Agreement on behalf of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND). Details are as follows: Purchase Order: PO5419301 Award of contract: 11 January 2005 Delivery on/by: 22 February 2005 Total value including VAT: £675,042. The Prison Service awarded a contract for the provision of IT equipment and software for the Prison Service's Technical Architects Solution Centre in 2004-05. The total cost was £35,000 and was procured through a competition with G-Cat suppliers. (c) The Home office did not grant any joint contracts to EDS and Fujitsu in the financial years 2002-03, 2003-04 or 2004-YTD.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

432 c653-4W;432 c654-5W; 211620

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Contracts Government departments Home Office Electronic Data Systems Fujitsu

Link

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