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Sheila Gilmore – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Northern Ireland Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Sheila Gilmore on 2014-03-27.

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, what the (a) 20 highest and (b) 20 lowest value contracts awarded by her Department were in each financial year since 2009-10.

Mrs Theresa Villiers

Because of the devolution of policing and justice functions on 12 April 2010, my Department does not hold details for the periods prior to 2010; attempting to obtain this information would incur disproportionate cost. The contracts awarded by my Department since April 2010 are as follows:

Name of Contract

Award Date

Estimated Total Value

Finance Platform – System Support Agreement

1 April 2013

£18k

Finance Platform – Managed Service

2 July 2013

£6k

Preventative Maintenance for Hillsborough Castle

4 September 2013

£9.5k

Hillsborough Castle Gardening

1 December 2013

£50k

Name of Contract

Award Date

Estimated Annual Value

File and Document Storage

January 2013

£40k

The majority of contracts used by my Department are awarded by the Department of Finance and Personnel Central Procurement Directorate or the Central Government Procurement Service. These are generally awarded for a range of Northern Ireland Civil Service or Whitehall Departments which enable NIO to draw services from them.

Should you wish to establish details of these contracts you should contact these organisations directly at the following addresses:

DFP Central Procurement Directorate – www.dfpni.gov.uk/cpd

Central Government Procurement Service – www.civilservice.gov.uk/networks/gps