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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Answer

Mr. Hancock: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs 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; over what period of time; and if he will make a statement. [211619] Mr. MacShane: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has had no joint EDS/Fujitsu contracts. Contracts granted to EDS and Fujitsu separately over each of the last two years are listed: £ _________________________________________________________________________________________________. EDS Title Competition Cost Duration Network Storage Solution Yes (through GCAT)* 500,000 29 March 2004-29 March 2007 Fujitsu -- -- -- FCONet Phase1 Yes (through SCAT)* 1,087,000 28 March 2003-29 March 2007 FCONet Phase2 No--single source addition for 2,077,000 -- compatibility reasons, to an earlier contract that was open to competition Warning Index OnLine(WIOL) No--for compatibility reasons 2,400,000 2001 April 2003 to this was an addition to a Home 31 March 2005 Office contract which was open to competition. _________________________________________________________________________________________________. The FCO seeks to award all of its contracts through open competition according to the EU Procurement Regulations, based on best value for money. Office of Government Commerce Goods and Services Catalogues (GCAT & SCAT).

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

430 c1200W; 211619

Session

2004-05

Subjects

Contracts Government departments Foreign and Commonwealth Office Electronic Data Systems Fujitsu

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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