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PricewaterhouseCoopers

Answer

The Home Department engages consultancy firms to support and augment civil servants in the delivery of a specific range of work, including large IT development programmes and, where more cost-effective, longer term service delivery programmes.The Department's expenditure on these services is allocated across a wide range of firms, from small, specialist companies with niche expertise and few employees, to global multinational organisations offering a broad spectrum and substantial depth of consultancy expertise.The Department awards contracts in competition according to the EU procurement directives based on value for money. The Department uses OGC framework agreements where appropriate. The use of external consultants provides the Department with specialist knowledge, skill, capacity and technical expertise that would not otherwise be available. Some expenditure is on consultants to whom we have outsourced services, such as IT.The Department inclusive of its agencies has awarded contracts to PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2000. The Department does not hold a central record of individual contracts with external consultants. To identify and compile a list of contracts from individual files would incur disproportionate cost.The information held by the Department on the total value of contracts let to PricewaterhouseCoopers since 2004-05 is as follows:

	£
2004-05	2,118,055
2005-06	3,769,092
2006-07	4,669,861

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

472 c1268-9W; 181511

Session

2007-08

Subjects

Home Office PwC

Link

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