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Northern Ireland Office

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Pete Wishart: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will list the 30 largest contracts awarded by his Department from (a) May 2001 to April 2002, (b) May 2002 to April 2003, (c) May 2003 to April 2004 and (d) May 2004 to the latest date for which information is available, indicating in each case (i) the values of the contracts and (ii) the companies with which the contracts were placed. [196890] Mr. Pearson: Over the last three years, Departments in Northern Ireland have awarded a large number of contracts, varying in value and covering a wide range of works, supplies and services. Details of every individual contract are not held centrally and the top 30 contracts could be provided only at disproportionate cost. However, details of contracts of significant value (i.e. over £l million) are outlined as follows. Contracts awarded by Northern Ireland Departments _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Contract description Contract value (£ million May 2001 to April 2002 Rathmore Grammar School, Belfast--New School 11.88 Oakgrove Integrated College, Londonderry--New School 9.73 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 7.96 St. Paul's High School, Bessbrook, Newry--Phase 1 Extension and 6.32 Refurbishment St. Patrick's Primary School, Londonderry--New School 4.3 Christ The Redeemer Primary School, Belfast--New School 3.33 NICS Provision of Electricity for Office Estate Buildings. 3.00 Legal services re energy legislation 2.37 St. Patrick's Grammar School Armagh--Extension 1.87 Refurbishment Portadown, Foyle and Ballymoney SSA's 1.65 Refurbishment Portadown, Foyle and Magherafelt SSA's Electrical 1.5 Services Refurbishment Newtownabbey, Knockbreda and Falls SSA's 1.5 Provision of Accounting Services Programme 1.20 Castle Buildings Refurbishment of Block D 1.14 Provision of portable accommodation units 1.12 Refurbishment Knockbreda and Newtownabbey SSA's--Electrical 1.10 Refurbishment Portadown, Foyle and Magherafelt SSAs Mechanical 1.0 Services Ballymacward Primary School--New School 1.01 Provision of 2 storey steel modular framed building 1.00 May 2002 to April 2003 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 9.08 New Bacteriology Lab 7.46 NICS Motor Fleet Insurance 4.57 External and Internal Refurbishment of Holywood Road SSA 3.69 IBM Server Consolidation Project for Belfast City and Royal Group 3.1 Hospitals St. Kevin's Primary School, Belfast--New School 2.93 Refurbishment of SSA Offices Omagh and Enniskillen--Building Works 2.58 NICS Provision of Electricity for Office Estate Buildings 2.56 2003-2004 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 2.44 New Deal Provision (Part of Government Welfare to Work Policy) 2.3 Refurb of Various SSA Offices Kilkeel, Shaftesbury Sq and Shankill 2.01 Rd--Bldg New Deal Provision (Part of Government Welfare to Work Policy 1.8 Refurbishment of Government Offices Limavady and Antrim--Building 1.72 Refurb of SSA Offices Kilkeel, Shaftesbury Sq and Shankill 1.70 Rd--Bldg Services Medical Library support services 1.28 Refurbishment of SSA Offices Omagh and Enniskillen--Electrical 1.23 Works Coleraine County Hall Additional Office Accommodation 1.02 NIO Travel Services 1.00 May 2003 to April 2004 Personal Health and Care Number ICT Project 26.00 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 10.0l NICS Security Guarding Contract: 2003-2006 8.20 Construction of VSD Laboratory Stoney Road 7.46 St. Fanchea's College, Enniskillen--New School 7.00 NICS Electricity for Office Estate Buildings 2004-2005 6.58 St. Paul's High School, Newry--Phase 2 Extension and 5.64 Refurbishment. Refurbishment of Government Offices Coleraine and Larne--Building 5.13 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 4.66 Meanscoil Feirste School--Phase 2 Extension and Refurbishment. 3.27 James House Office Accommodation Phases 2 and 3 fit-out 3.20 Causeway Exchange Office Accommodation fit-out 3.10 Fit out of SSA Offices Banbridge and Armagh 3.00 Thornhill College, Londonderry--New School 2.85 Goodwood House--Office Accommodation fit-out 2.60 Lighthouse Building--Office Accommodation fit-out 2.60 Provision of allied Nursing Health Professional Education 2.57 Jobskills Training for Electricians 2.40 St. Clare's Primary School, Belfast--New School 2.37 Jobskills Training in North East 2.10 Worktrack provision (Temp Employment Programme) 1.90 Refurbishment of Government Offices Limavady and 1.8 Antrim--Electrical Jobskills Training in Newry Area 1.70 Jobskills Training in West Belfast 1.70 Refurbishment of Government Offices Lurgan and 1.62 Carrickfergus--Electrical Jobskills Training in North West 1.50 Worktrack provision (Temp Employment Programme) 1.50 Worktrack provision (Temp Employment Programme) in May down area 1.50 Loughview Integrated Primary School, Belfast 1.48 Provision of Broadband services for Northern Ireland 1-- May 2004-October 2004. NICS Office Cleaning 2004-2007 14.00 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 9.66 Provision of Professional Nursing Education 5.37 Provision of allied Nursing Professional Education. 3.13 St. Ita's Primary School, Carryduff--New School 2.94 NIO Air Charter Service 2.00 NICS NI Public Sector Travel Management Services 2.00 Medical Library Services 1.36 _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Commercial in confidence contract sum Contractors/Suppliers awarded contracts by Northern Ireland Departments (Value £1 million plus) May 2001 to October 2004 A Prentice Belfast Contract Cleaners BT Group Blackbourne Electrical Co. Ltd. Brendan Loughran & Sons Carlson Wagonlit Travel Checkmate Ltd. Citywide Action Cobra Security Ltd. Community Aid 2000 David Patton & Sons (NI) Electrical Training Trust Energia Farrans FB McKee & Co Ltd. Felix O'Hare & Co Ltd. Galago Ltd. Gilbert-Ash NI Ltd. Glasgiven Contracts Ltd. Group 4 Securitas Ltd. Grove Services Group H & J Martin Ltd. IBM UK Ltd. Initial Cleaning Services Lisburn Security Services Ltd. Maybin Support Services Maydown Youth Training McAleer & Teague Ltd. McCann Bros' McCloskey & Kane Co. Ltd. McCombe Bros (Antrim) Ltd. McLaughlin & Harvey New Deal West North East Institute North West Institute O'Hanlon Bros' Construction Ltd. O'Hare & McGovern Ltd. Pattons Pegasus Security Group Precision Industrial Cleaning Property Support Services PriceWaterhousecoopers Queen's University Belfast Rotary Services Ltd. Securicor Security (NI) Ltd. Sharpe Mechanical Services Simmons & Simmons Springvale Steria Ltd. The McAvoy Group Ltd. University of Ulster Vaughan Engineering Services Ltd. Willis Woodvale Construction Ltd.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

426 c1748-51W;426 c1752-5W; 196890

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Contracts Companies Costs Government departments Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Office

Contains statistics

Yes

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