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Telephone Apparatus And Exchange Equipment (Tenders)

Volume 649: debated on Tuesday 21 November 1961

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asked the Postmaster-General what has been the result of his invitation to firms outside the Bulk Supply Agreement to tender for the supply of telephone apparatus to the value of £120,000 and exchange equipment to the value of £490,000 under the reservation clauses of the Bulk Supply Agreement.

I assume that the hon. Member has taken his figures from paragraph 60 of the Third Report from the Committee of Public Accounts, Session 1960–61, where, however, they were transposed. The correct figures are given in the Post Office paper at Appendix 7 to the Report.The result of the tendering has been that orders for telephone apparatus to a value of about £450,000 have been placed with firms outside the Bulk Supply Agreement. As regards exchange equipment, tenders were received for only a limited number of the items and were declined since the prices were sub-

Telephone AreaOrder List
30th June, 196131st July, 196131st August, 196130th September, 1961
Aberdeen1,3541,3281,1761,081
Bedford2,9712,9082,8692,574
Belfast3,0222,9862,7852,654
Birmingham8,5468,6908,4888,293
Blackburn2,3002,1992,0882,093
Bournemouth1,7101,5911,4951,460
Bradford2,2342,1612,0171,845
Brighton4,1323,8043,6673,412
Bristol2,1852,1492,0371,887
Cambridge2,3092,2922,0822,052
Canterbury2,6682,5712,4422,472
Cardiff3,8873,7763,7193,591
Chester2,0311,9291,8971,804
Colchester1,3481,2411,1781,150
Coventry4,8334,8344,7354,696
Dundee585611500507
Edinburgh1,1241,133934962
Exeter928903857790
Glasgow4,5154,3173,9703,855
Gloucester1,3531,3851,4121,187
Guildford2,9612,9452,9112,770
Lancaster1,5411,5361,4411,398
Leeds3,1622,9572,8032,688
Leicester2,0131,7531,6891,643
Lincoln2,3722,2642,2202,195
Liverpool3,6243,5923,4083,355
London/Centre5,8345,8976,2406,536
London/City4,8974,8424,3964,711
London/East5,1564,4783,4442,942
London/North5,8145,5664,8984,165

stantially higher than for the same items provided under the Agreement. Further tenders are being invited.