The five most expensive external consultancy contracts awarded by the DWP are shown in the following table. Information is only available from April 2004, prior to this date records are not held centrally and information could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Please note that these are contracted values and include subsequent contract extensions.
Supplier Description Accumulative contract value (£) 2004-05 Booz Allen Hamilton Pensions Transformation Programme “Wave 1 and 2” 56,400,000 IBM UK Ltd. A central role in strategic planning and business change in the finance and procurement domains including support for the implementation of the finance and procurement elements of the Resource Management system. It also covered changes being made in the areas of Debt Management and the Business Information Centre 48,631,534 Capgemini UK plc Programme Systems Delivery—Transformational design and implementation including managed service provision of interim transformation managers 26,250,000 PA Consulting Services Ltd. Payment Modernisation Programme 25,580,918 Capgemini UK plc HR Change Programme—Design and implementation of whole programme including processing, resource management, learning and reward management 9,520,000 2005-06 Booz Allen Hamilton Pensions Transformation Programme Design Changes Phase (1) 25,000,000 Booz Allen Hamilton Pensions Transformation Programme Design Changes Phase (2) 18,100,000 Booz Allen Hamilton Pensions Transformation Programme Wave 1 Operational Readiness Review Gate 9,600,000 Deloitte MCS Ltd. Integrated Communications and Network Services (ICONS) Transformation Plan Management 6,337,500 RSM Robson Rhodes LLP Strategic partner to Risk and Assurance Directorate responsible for departmental audit and control work 5,000,000 2006-07 to January 2007 Deloitte MCS Ltd. Programme Systems Directorate strategic support relating to major IT contracts 8,230,802 PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Strategic Review of Remploy 800,000 Deloitte MCS Ltd. Child Support Agency operational Improvement Programme Business Process Design and Re-engineering 789,597 Capita Consulting Pensions Transformation Strategic Business Assurance support including risk assessment 743,004 Capgemini UK plc Group Finance Directorate support in delivery of Planning and Performance Management Engagement Model Phase 2 446,310