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Buying Solutions

Answer

An appropriate contract management strategy is adopted for all professional service contracts. Actions include reviewing the contractors' performance against the contract and assessing whether or not the objectives of the assignment have been met. Fees and expenses are regularly checked and where possible payments are linked to key deliverables or milestones. Post-assignment reviews are undertaken on completion of the contract, where appropriate, to assess the performance of the contractor and identify lessons learnt. Departments are not required to report spend data to Buying Solutions. Information on payments to the firms listed is shown in the following table. The increases shown from 2007-08 onwards are as a direct result of the necessary financial stability measures introduced by the Government particularly in connection with the asset protection scheme and the appointment of the independent valuer for Northern Rock. This spending is recharged to the financial organisations concerned and there is therefore no net cost to the department.

Firm	2008-09	2007-08	2006-07	2005-06	2004-05
	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000
PWC	5,260	2,347	356	308	231
KPMG	1,678	250	273	456	71
Deloitte	704	743	387	322	33
E & Y	245	81	372	301	176
Grant Thornton	159	-	-	-	-
BDO Stoy Hayward	2,257	-	-	-	-
PKF	-	-	132	98	97
Accenture	-	58	114	-	-

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

2081; 718 c64-5WA

Session

2009-10

Subjects

Contracts Consultants Expenditure Monitoring Treasury 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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