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Contracts: Costs

Volume 489: debated on Wednesday 11 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what the (a) first estimate, (b) last estimate and (c) outturn cost was of each of the 30 largest IT contracts her Department has entered into with external suppliers since 1997. (250831)

[holding answer 27 January 2009]: Details of the largest information technology contracts agreed by the Department since 1997 are as follows:

£ million

IT contract

First estimate

Last estimate

Outturn cost

Criminal Records Bureau PPP agreement: Capita

400

400

1334

Independent Safeguarding Authority—Vetting and Barring Scheme: Logica

47

50

128.5

HO and UKBA—IT2000 provision of desktop, remote access, applications.

700

700

1,2566

UKBA—IND Procurement of Infrastructure, Development and Support (IPIDS): ATOS Origin

250

250

130

UKBA—Mycroft—SERCO

42

42

143.5

UKBA—IAFs (Immigration Automated Fingerprinting System): Sagem

31

31

128.7

UKBA. Warnings Index—Fujitsu

32.8

32.8

8.8

UKBA. E-borders—Trusted Borders Consortium

863

880

1105

UKBA—Semaphore: IBM

30

50

45.7

Group Wide Services (GWS): Savvis 1st tranche Applications

7

7

13.7

IPS—PASS

116

116

1,3338

IPS Pass subsequent phases

244

244

3

IPS—Admin IT: ATOS Origin

55

55

149

IPS—Search/Analysis system—Biographical Footprint check: Equifax plc

8

313.4

1,313.4

Secure Hosting of above—Equifax plc

4

3

3

IPS—PIMIS: IBM

9

9

9

IPS—PKI: nCipher Corporation

7

8.5

15

IPS—Fraud MI: Logica CMG

0.8

1.5

1.5

IPS—Website: Redweb Ltd.

0.5

0.5

32.0

Website—Subsequent phases and support—Redweb Ltd.

1.5

1.5

3

IPS—ICT Goods and Services: Computacenter

4

16

16

1 To date.

2 January 2009.

3 Indicates brace

4 OGC cross government framework