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Buying Solutions

Answer

The Department for Culture Media and Sport has made the following payments to these companies:

Company	2008-9	2007-8	2006-7	2005-6	2004-5
PwC	50,725	405,816	829,912	109,416	277,192
KPMG	-	45,950	808,788	255,000	-
Deloitte	136,940	328,470	-	-	33,848
Ernst & Young	725,876	-	-	-	-
Grant Thornton	-	-	-	-	-
BDO Stoy Hayward	-	-	-	-	-
Baker Tilly	-	-	-	-	-
Smith & Williamson	-	-	-	-	-
Tenon Group	-	-	-	-	-
PKF	-	-	79,254	96,167	226,853
McKinsey and Company	19,500	21,737	-	255,915	-
Accenture	-	57,128	683,754	-	-

The agency Royal Parks has made the following payments to these companies:

Company	2008-9	2007-8	2006-7	2005-6	2004-5
PwC	9,000	9,000	0	0	0
KPMG	0	0	0	0	0
Deloitte	0	0	0	0	0
Ernst & Young	0	0	0	0	0
Grant Thornton	0	0	0	0	0
BDO Stoy Hayward	0	0	0	0	0
Baker Tilly***	0	0	0	0	0
Smith & Williamson	0	0	0	0	0
Tenon Group	0	0	0	0	0
PKF	0	0	0	8,000	35,317
McKinsey and Company	0	0	0	0	0
Accenture	0	0	0	0	0

"*** Please note that Baker Tilly used to be subcontracted by NAO to do our year-end audit, but we were charged by NAO under notional charges. No moneys were paid by TRP direct to Baker Tilly." All figures exclude VAT. For the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, contracts with the organisations used are either managed by a contract manager or a project manager dependent on the nature of the work and its duration. End-of-contract reports are sent to the procurement team to establish that the work has been carried out to an expected level of delivery. For the agency Royal Parks, the contracts listed were short term and monitored through regular TRP/consultant meetings. There are no reports made to Buying Solutions during or at the end of the contract unless there have been exception reports raised during the use of the supplier for either good or poor performance. The agency Royal Parks would report to Buying Solutions if it experienced problems with a contractor.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2095; 718 c35-7WA

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Contracts Consultants Expenditure Monitoring Department for Culture, Media and Sport EY PwC Pannell Kerr Forster KPMG McKinsey and Company Grant Thornton Tenon BDO Stoy Hayward Buying Solutions Deloitte Accenture Smith and Williamson Baker Tilly

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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