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Departmental Contracts

Volume 470: debated on Tuesday 22 January 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what the (a) objective and (b) value was of each contract placed with (i) Deloitte and Touche, (ii) Ernst and Young, (iii) KPMG, (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers and (v) PA Consulting by his Department and its agencies in each year since 2004-05. (179028)

The (a) objective and (b) value of the contracts placed with (i) Deloitte and Touche, (ii) Ernst and Young, (iii) KPMG, (iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers and (v) PA Consulting by the Northern Ireland Office and its agencies in each year since 2004-05 are shown in the following tables.

(i) Deloitte and Touche

Objective

Value (£)

2004-05

Provision of Deputy Programme Manager to Causeway Programme

128,170

Technical Architect for Flax Programme

250,000

Production of business case for the State Pathologist’s Departmental Case Management System

5,100

Programme Scoping

14,119

Financial Advisors Framework

11,400

Finance backfill including Business Planning Support

17,798

Review of Finance Function and Business Planning Activity

21,380

Backfill for Accountant on sick absence including Preparation of Year End Accounts

16,020

Total

463,987

2005-06

Provision of Deputy Programme Manager to Causeway Programme

121,544

Document Management System for Flax Programme

31,000

Production of business case for the State Pathologist’s Departmental Case Management System

5,100

Completion of Status Review of the State Pathologist’s Department

11,850

Capacity Planning Pilot

10,375

Preparation of Business Case for Casebook 3

6,870

Business Case and assistance in procurement of new Finance System

25,795

Backfill for Accountant on sick absence

1,875

Consultancy Testing for Causeway Programme

25,000

Advice on transfer of Cross Border Senior Police Officer Pensions

40,000

Research of Court Bail in Northern Ireland

106,366

Evaluation of Bail Supervision and Support Scheme

54,039

Feasibility Study on One Stop Shop for Domestic Violence

48,696

Efficiency Review

23,500

Total

512,010

2006-07

Provision of Deputy Programme Manager to Causeway Programme

16,332

Flax Programme

23,800

NIO Connect Scoping Study

26,700

Completion and Analysis of Customer Satisfaction Survey

53,000

Domestic Violence Database Project

37,600

Health Check of EDRMS System

11,679

Prison Escorting Business Plan Review

34,781

Management Plan Grading Study

6,138

Total

210,030

2007-08

Provision of Testing Manager for Causeway Programme

39,163

Provision of Business Case for Perseus Programme

22,500

Quality Assurance of a Service Level Agreement

46,392

Total

108,055

Overall total

1,294,082

(ii) Ernst and Young

No contracts have been in place with Ernst and Young since 2004-05.

(iii) KPMG

No contracts have been in place with KPMG since 2004-05.

(iv) PricewaterhouseCoopers

Objective

Value (£)

2004-05

Provision of Accounting Services

2,438

Total

2,438

2005-06

Production of business case and provision of financial advisory service for a New Accommodation Project

59,290

Advice on Human Resources Restructuring

10,080

Development of Role Profiles

5,000

Provision of Prisoner Ombudsman

38,340

Investors In People Review

1,051

Total

113,761

2006-07

Production of business case and provision of financial advisory service for a New Accommodation Project

13,000

Advice on Human Resources Restructuring

2,135

Review of Role Profiling

1,314

Professional fees Restructuring

8,944

Total

25,393

2007-08

Production of business case and provision of financial advisory service for a New Accommodation Project

141,692

Preparations for Devolution

40,000

Total

81,692

Overall total

223,284

1 Ongoing.

(v) PA Consulting

Objective

Value (£)

2004-05

n/a

2005-06

Provision of Technical Assurance to Causeway Programme

72,800

Total

72,800

2006-07

Review of the Public Prosecution Service's Cast Management System

9,061

Total

9,061

2007-08

n/a

Overall total

81,861