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Departmental ICT

Volume 478: debated on Tuesday 8 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport what IT contracts his Departments and its agency have entered into in the last two years. (215164)

The Department has entered into one IT contract with Atos Origin for covering ICT services for seven years, signed in December 2007, with a value of approximately £40 million.

Since 1 July 2006, the Royal Parks Agency has entered into seven contracts with Atkins and one with OGC Buying Solutions/Global Crossing and these are detailed as follows:

1. Contract with Atkins for IT Disaster Recovery implementation, let February 2007, for one year, at a cost of £44,000

2. Contract with Atkins for IT Strategy and Governance Development, let April 2007, for three months, at a cost of £35,000

3. Contract with Atkins for ICT Programme implementation—stage 1, let April 2007, for two months, at a cost of £100,000

4. Contract with Atkins for ICT Programme implementation—stage 2, let August 2007, for four months, at a cost of £219,000

5. Contract with Atkins for ICT Programme implementation—stage 3, let January 2008, for one year, at a cost of £721,000

6. Contract with Atkins for IT support services, let May 2007, for one year, at a cost of £7,000

7. Contract with Atkins for IT support services, let May 2008, for one year, at a cost of £7,000

8. Contract with OGC Buying Solutions and Global Crossing for a managed data communications service, let February 2007, for three years, at a cost of £218,000

Note:

All costs exclude VAT.