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Mr. Tim Smith
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list each management or computer consultancy contract awarded by his Department in 1987, giving in each case the name of the consultancy firm and the subject of the assignment.
Mr. Eggar
The management and computer consultants awarded contracts in the financial year 1987–88 are as follows:
| Management consultancy contracts | |
| Firm | Subject of Assingment |
| Management Consultants | |
| B. J. Stent, Materials Services and Consultancy | Procurement Consultancy |
| Kinsley Lord | Review of Assistant Under Secretary command |
| R. Pope | Report on Purchasing |
| Peat Marwick McLintock | Freight Tender Review |
| Ken Snooks International | Review of Thomas Cook/British Airways Implant |
| SPS Management Services | Foreign and Commonwealth Office Travel Contract |
| Touche Ross | Study of Foreign and Commonwealth Office Computer Audit Requirements |
| BIS | Review of Information Handling Requirements of the Diplomatic Service |
| Computer Consultants | |
| Data General | Management Accounting and Information System |
| Excel Systems | An Expenditure Forecasting System |
| Kinesis Computing Limited | Development of Overseas Systems |
| BIS | Development of Overseas Systems |
| Kode Limited | Review of Faults in Overseas Systems |
Firm
| Subject of Assingment
| |
| Towngate Software Limited | Development of an Overseas Accounting System | |
| Computer Sciences Limited | Folios Consultancy Studies | |
| Logica United Kingdom Limited | Folios Consultancy Studies | |
| Systems Designers Public Limited Company | Folios Consultancy Studies | |
| The Instruction Set | (i) | Folios Consultancy Studies |
| (ii) | Administration Records Consultancy | |
| Information and Records Management Systems | Folios Consultancy Studies | |
| Psychometric R + D Limited | Folios Consultancy Studies | |
| Information Resources | (i) | A Financial Estimates System |
| (ii) | An Overseas Estates Financial System | |
| Software Sciences Limited | Advice on computer strategy and standards | |
| Price Waterhouse | (i) | Computerisation of Administration Records |
| (ii) | Replacement of Financial System | |
| Kings Brook Information Associates | Replacement of System for Library and Records. |