The companies directly contracted to provide services for the Expo event, the services they are providing, and the value of each contract awarded are as follows:
MIS—provision of event management services (three individual contracts, with values of £249,204, £231,075 and £350,000—a combined total value of £830,279); and
Central Office of Information—provision of project management and co-ordination (contract value £203,350), and communications and media handling (contract value £100,000).