To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what information technology contracts were entered into by the Valuation Office Agency or its representatives on its behalf between May 2001 and May 2006. (284766)

The primary ICT contracts for the VOA are via the HMRC Aspire and Sprint contracts effective from July 2004 and October 2005 respectively; the majority of 3^rd party procurement is through these existing contract frameworks. In the preceding years, the primary ICT contracts were via the HMRC Eagle and eIROS contract frameworks.

A small system contract has been entered into separately:

Development and maintenance of time recording and case management system (TRACS software (including Panasonic data (barcode) scanners)) with TMS.

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Peterborough (Mr. Jackson) of 11 May 2009, Official Report, column 542W, on the Valuation Office: ICT, for what purposes the Valuation Office Agency’s Sprint contract was entered into; and what the terms are of that contract. (284767)

Sprint is a framework agreement contract awarded in 2005 by HMRC to Specialist Computer Centres plc. (SCC) and Dataserv CES Ltd. for the supply of information technology, telecommunications and audio visual and related supplies and services. The agency is a participating authority to that contract.