asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those companies that his Department has awarded contracts for the supply of word processing hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
The Ministry of Defence procured, primarily through Her Majesty's Stationery Office, dedicated word processing hardware and associated word processing software software from the following companies:
Year and Company | Total expenditure |
£ | |
1984–85 | |
Exxon/Vydec | 1,566,000 |
AES | |
CPT | |
Phillips | |
Rank Xerox | |
Data Logic | |
Olivetti | |
Diamond (OTL) | |
1985–86 | |
AES | 1,184,000 |
CPT | |
Phillips | |
Rank Xerox | |
Olivetti | |
Logica | |
Data Logic | |
ICL | |
Canon | |
1986–87 | |
AES | 2,106,000 |
CPT | |
Phillips | |
Amstrad | |
ICL | |
Wordplex | |
Olivetti | |
OEM | |
Rank Xerox | |
GEC Reliance | |
Canon | |
Wang |
asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent on (a) word processing hardware and (b) word processing software in each year since 1984; and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
Expenditure on hardware dedicated to word processing, and word processing software, is not separately identifiable. Total expenditure was:
£ | |
1984–85 | 1,566,000 |
1985–86 | 1,184,000 |
1986–87 | 2,106,000 |
asked the Secretary of State for Defence if he will list those companies that his Department has 1,184,000 awarded contracts for the supply of desktop hardware and software in each year since 1984; and what was the value of each contract.
Since 1984 the Ministry of Defence has procured desktop publishing hardware and software through Her Majesty's Stationery Office, from Apple Macintosh and Rank Zerox. For reasons of commercial confidentiality it would be improper for me to ive details of individual contract values.
asked the Secretary of State for Defence how much his Department has spent on (a) desktop publishing hardware and (b) desktop publishing software in each year since 1984 and what is projected expenditure for the financial years 1987–88 and 1988–89.
Expenditure on hardware and software dedicated to desktop publishing is not separable. Total expenditure was:
£ | |
1984–85 | Nil |
1985–86 | 37,800 |
1986–87 | 17,000 |