The Department came into being in July 2001. From information held centrally, the core-Department expenditure on consultancy and professional services over the financial years 2002-03 to 2006-07 (the first six months) is as per the following table:
Professional services 2002-03 2003-04 2004-05 2005-06 2006-07 IT and telecommunication 45,431,803 52,805,769 99,254,525 130,937,698 64,966,899 Management and business consultancy 15,317,092 20,260,714 78,671 ,992 44,136,007 10,760,237 Programme and project management 20,579,670 23,118,978 24,323,086 18,192,186 5,293,234 Research and development 9,032,254 9,751,623 18,113,871 20,190,046 14,066,614 Specialist consultancy 39,942,837 39,828,357 36,312,208 36,646,432 9,009,558 Temporary staff 10,536,838 9,383,419 9,623,459 9,890,898 3,908,745 Grand total 140,840,492 155,148,860 266,299,141 259,993,267 108,005,287
Consultancy and professional services companies who undertook work in excess of £10 million over this period are:
Vendor name Total (£) IBM United Kingdom Ltd 184,000,947.13 Atos Origin IT Services UK Ltd 74,363,856.08 ADAS Consulting Ltd 63,234,238.93 Powergen Warm Front Ltd 52,171,198.28 Sungard Sherwood Systems Ltd 34,073,067.60 P A Consulting Group 25,395,448.74 Sema UK Ltd 19,399,018.41 Sherwood International Group Ltd 16,075,979.46 Adecco UK Ltd 16,053,596.31 Hedra Consortium 13,491,479.26 Walter Lilly and Co Ltd 12,487,874.35 Casella Stanger 11,128,685.35 Kelly Services UK Ltd 10,278,613.78 Tribal Yale 10,041,985.79