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 contracts were entered into with (a) Coffey International Development Ltd., (b) CP Recoveries, (c) Crown Agents, (d) Ebla Translations, (e) DGSI, (f) Disposal Services Authority, (g) Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, (h) Fugro Middle East, (i) GTZ, (j) Heathrow Airport Limited, (k) MCI UK Ltd., (l) RN Golds Associates, (m) SMA Ltd., (n) Thales UK Ltd. and (o) The Carbon Trust in 2008-09; and what the monetary value of each such contract was.
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 table 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 | ||
| Coffey International Development Ltd. | Civilian support to Ministry of Interior and Iraqi Police Service | 4,049,475 | — |
| Fiscal policy assistance for Government of Maldives | 46,510 | — | |
| CP Recoveries | Consultancy services—construction project review and remediation | 121,550.00 | Contract sum |
| Crown Agents | Life support services in Afghanistan | 1,189,090 | — |
| Provision of interpreter for BCG Basra | 52,908 | — | |
| Ebla Translations | Translation for Arabic and Urdu websites | — | Price per 1,000 words translated -subject to usage |
| DGSI | Provision of IT software and hardware | 1,194,797.16 | Spend figure |
| Disposal Services Authority | Managed disposal service | 5,000 | — |
| Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP | Provision of legal advisers to major Telecommunications procurement | 199,619 | — |
| Fugro Middle East | Dubai—Soil Investigations | 7,509 | — |
| GTZ | Drug education, detoxification and rehabilitation services to Afghan National Police | 500,000 | — |
| Heathrow Airport Limited | Service agreement in relation to royal suite at Heathrow airport | 686,100 | —- |
| MCI UK Ltd. | Event management services for FCO Leadership Conference 2009 | 207,104 | — |
| RN Golds Associates | Consultancy services—services and construction phase audit/QS services | 33,510 | — |
| SMA Ltd | Worldwide Lift Consultancy Term Commission | 1,634,457.23 | Contract sum |
| Thales UK Ltd. | Provision of and secure destruction of security goods | 643,839.00 | Spend figure |
| The Carbon Trust | Carbon Trust consultancies | 110,000.00 | — |