Public Relations

Mr. Stewart Jackson
To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office which public relations companies were awarded the contracts arising from the Central Office of Information Framework Agreement with contract reference 2007/S 156-194886; and what the total value was of the Framework Agreement.

Tessa Jowell
I have asked the chief executive of the Central Office of Information to reply to the hon. Member.

Letter from Mark Lund, dated October 2009:

As Chief Executive of the Central Office of Information (COI), I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question [294963] asking which public relations companies were awarded contracts arising from the COI Framework Agreement with the contract reference 2007/S 156-194886; and what the total value of the Framework Agreement.

The Framework Agreement relates to the Marketing Aimed at Culturally Diverse Audiences Framework which commenced in 2007.

The estimated value of the Framework is between £7 million and £12 million, however the total value of the framework will not be known until its expiry in 2012.

The following agencies have subsequently been awarded contracts from it;

Mediareach

Media Moguls

Livity

Linstock Communications

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