Procurement
(asked on 11th July 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many contracts (a) his Department and (b) its agencies and non-departmental public bodies (i) have let and (ii) plan to let that are worth (A) between £1 million and £3 million and (B) over £3 million since 2010; how much his Department has spent on monitoring each such contract; and how many officials in his Department monitor each contract.
Table 1 below provides a summary of the contracts let with values between £1m and £3m and greater than £3m from 2010 and its Agencies. It also provides details of contracts that the department anticipates letting by the end of the current financial year.
Table 1 | Let since 1/4/2010 |
| Planned to be let by 31/01/2015 | ||
| £1m to £3m | £3m+ |
| £1m to £3m | £3m+ |
Department for Transport (central) | 30 | 30 |
| 2 | 3 |
Vehicle Certification Agency | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
Government Car Service | 0 | 0 |
| 1 | 0 |
Maritime and Coastguard Agency | 6 | 6 |
| 1 | 1 |
Driver and vehicle standards Agency* | 9 | 3 |
| 2 | 2 |
The Highways Agency** | 150 | 104 |
| 2 | 16 |
Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency | 22 | 19 |
| 0 | 4 |
High Speed 2 | 7 | 18 |
| 2 | 5 |
British Transport Police Authority*** | 7 | 5 |
| 5 | 5 |
Traffic Commissioners | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
Disabled Passenger Transport Advisory Committee | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
London and Continental Railways | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | 0 |
Passenger Focus | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 |
Northern Lighthouse Board & Trinity House Lighthouse service | 3 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 |
Directly Operated Railways | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
Office of Rail Regulation | 0 | 1 |
| 0 | 0 |
Civil Aviation Authority | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 |
*This is a recent merger of the Driving Standards Agency and Vehicle and Operator Services Agency | |||||
** The Highways Agency have supplied data from the beginning of the calendar year 2010. | |||||
*** This includes details for the British Transport Police |
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The department does not hold centrally data on the spend and personnel numbers associated with monitoring contracts and this could only be obtained at disproportionate cost.