Home Office HQ figures on the total value of spend on contracts with the Capita Group and its subsidiaries are available from 2003-04 when the Department's ERP system was initiated. Earlier data could be collected only at disproportionate cost. Taking into account the May 2007 machinery of government changes, the available information held by the Department and its agencies on spend for each year since 2000 is as follows:
HO HQ incl. BIA CRB IPS Total 2000-01 n/a 0 1,482,985 1,482,985 2001-02 n/a 12,100,000 198,290 12,298,290 2002-03 n/a 33,500,000 65,108 33,565,108 2003-04 92,423 58,500,000 31,091 58,623,514 2004-05 1,182,337 44,100,000 974,281 46,256,618 2005-06 1,739,153 47,000,000 4,452,623 53,191,776 2006-07 3,985,112 49,000,000 7,053,127 60,038,239
The Department does not hold a central record of individual contracts with Capita Group and its subsidiaries, and to assemble all the requested details from all individual contract records would incur disproportionate cost. The majority of the spend derives from the disclosure service contract between the Criminal Records Bureau and Capita Business Services based upon a public private partnership agreement. The Department is able to provide the information in relation to this contract as set out in the following table.
The contract was awarded in 2000 and runs for 10 years from CRB go-live which occurred in March 2002. The contract cost is estimated at £400 million over 10 years. Contract schedules set out service levels and the service credits that apply should Capita fail to meet the agreed service levels. Liquidated damages are charged in the event of late delivery to agreed changes in the service. From 2001-02, the following payments have been received from Capita for service credits and liquidated damages:
Received from Capita for service credits (£) 2001-02 555,000 2002-03 1,718,000 2003-04 1,528,000 2004-05 53,000 2005-06 92,000 2006-07 168,000
The Department awards contracts in competition according to the EU procurement directives based on value for money. The contract was advertised and 94 companies registered expressions of interest.