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To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes her Department has made to its contract with Sprakab in 2014-15 to date; and what the reasons were for those changes.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what changes her Department has made to its contract with Sprakab in 2014-15 to date; and what the reasons were for those changes.
There have been no changes made to the current contract with Sprakab, which was awarded in August, following an open procurement competition. As part of this process, a contract was also awarded to a new firm, Verified, as the lead
supplier, which was on the basis of securing the best value contracts for the taxpayer.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value was of contracts awarded by her Department to Sprakab in each of the last five years.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what the value was of contracts awarded by her Department to Sprakab in each of the last five years.
The present contract awarded to Sprakab earlier this year is on a non-volume guarantee basis, and has no set value. The previous contractual arrangement for the provision of language analysis services with Sprakab commenced in 2007 and
also had no set value.
In both contracts, testing with Sprakab was conducted on a flexible, case by case basis, and charges were accrued accordingly.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the quality of service provided to her Department by Sprakab in decision-making on asylum claims; and whether she plans to review claims dealt with by that company.
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment she has made of the quality of service provided to her Department by Sprakab in decision-making on asylum claims; and whether she plans to review claims dealt with by that company.
As part of the contract competition undertaken in 2014, Sprakab and Verified provided strong evidence of the quality of the services offered. There are dedicated formal arrangements in place to monitor our suppliers’ compliance with the contract terms.
Sprakab also has its own internal quality checks, and – through the Swedish Migration Board – a sample of its tests are externally checked by the Immigration and Naturalisation Services (IND) of the Netherlands.
The quality of assessments made by Sprakab, have been thoroughly scrutinised by the Courts on a number of occasions. Where any criticisms have been made about methodology, changes have been made to address them. Most recently, in 2014, the Supreme Court agreed that Sprakab’s analyses were admissible in evidence, and for the conclusions they expressed to be given weight according to the reasoning and expertise used to support them.