Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs pursuant to the Answer of 1 July 2009, Official Report, column 284W, on departmental contracts, what the monetary value is of each contract entered into by his Department during financial year 2008-09 with (a) Bramble.cc Ltd., (b) Business Objects (UK) Limited, (c) Computacenter, (d) Data Capture Solutions and (e) ODEC Ltd.
Answer
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) only has a static database of all of its contracts in the UK and overseas which was compiled in the latter part of 2008. Work is currently being undertaken to convert this to a real time database. To gather all of the contract information for 2008-09 would involve disproportionate cost so the following response reflects records kept by the two contracts teams in the FCO and FCO Services for 2008-09 which will cover a high proportion of the contracts awarded by the FCO in the UK during the period.
| Monetary value (£) | Comment | ||
| Bramble CC Ltd | Provision of Consultancy Services of Taxonomy Specialists | 44,750 | — |
| Business Objects (UK) Ltd | 07/08 Financial Model and Statutory Accounting System Support | 337,000 | — |
| Computacenter | Provision of Contractors through OGC Catalyst Framework | 988,044.39 | Spend figure |
| Data Capture solutions | Scanning of Treaty Texts | — | Price per page subject to usage |
| ODEC Ltd | Provision of Analyst for Joint Narcotics Analysists Centre | 117,250 | Contract sum |