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Written question asked by Lord Patten (Conservative), in the House of Lords. It was answered by Lord West of Spithead (Labour) on Monday, 20 April 2009.


Government: IT Contracts

Question
To ask Her Majesty's Government which information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over have been entered into by the Home Office since 1997; and which of those have been completed to budget, to time and to specification.
Answer

Details of the Information technology contracts with a value of £50 million or over that have been entered into by the Home Department since 1997 are provided in the attached table. All the contracts listed in the table are ongoing service contracts running over several years.

Table 1
Information technology contract Date contract awarded Contract Value £ millions
Home Office & UKBA—IT2000 provision of desktop, remote access, applications. Fujitsu 2000 £700 million
UKBA—IND Procurement of Infrastructure, Development and Support (IPIDS): ATOS Origin 2004 £250 million
UKBA. E-Borders—Trusted Borders Consortium 2008 £880 million
Independent Safeguarding Authority—vetting and Barring Scheme: Logica 2007 £50 million
Criminal Records Bureau—PPP Agreement : Capita 2000 £400 million
IPS—PASS 1997 £360 million
IPS—Admin IT: ATOS Origin 1999 £55 million

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
2799; 709 c341-2WA
Session
2008-09
Subjects
Contracts ICT Home Office
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
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