The amount of money paid out by my Department on consultancy services in 2004 was €3,009,247. This expenditure is broken down in three main strands: support for a number of strategic multi-annual programmes aimed at enhancing the delivery of the Department's services such as the service delivery modernisation programme; technical consultancies relating to the ongoing development of information technology systems; consultancy assistance in other areas including policy development. Details of the amounts paid in 2004 and the consultancy firms involved are set out as follows. A sum of €8,000,000 has been allocated for consultancy services on a similar basis in 2005.
Appendix
Supplier Name
|
Amount
|
|
€
|
Bearing Point Ireland Ltd
|
1,799,082
|
Hewlett Packard Ireland Limited
|
396,971
|
Accourt Ltd
|
148,686
|
Fujitsu Consulting Ltd.
|
72,771
|
Nexus Europe Ireland Limited
|
69,031
|
Gartner Ireland Limited
|
56,000
|
CPL Solutions Ltd.
|
49,432
|
Propylon Ltd.
|
42,380
|
IBM Ireland Ltd.
|
36,300
|
Lansdowne Market Research Ltd
|
34,364
|
John Naughten Services Ltd.
|
31,545
|
Similarity Systems Ltd.
|
30,855
|
Cara Data Processing Ltd
|
20,691
|
Qualbase Ltd
|
17,854
|
First Impression Design
|
16,335
|
Peoplesoft UK Ltd.
|
13,703
|
Goodbody Economic Consultants
|
13,310
|
James Doran & Associates Ltd
|
10,890
|
Finglas Cabra Partnership Ltd
|
10,000
|
Oracle EMEA Limited
|
9,433
|
The Katherine Howard Foundation
|
8,631
|
Mr Robert Dowdall, Research
|
8,140
|
Technical Guidance Ltd.
|
7,926
|
Waterford Institute of Technology,
|
6,679
|
Touchpaper Ireland Limited
|
6,353
|
Edward Delany & Associates
|
6,156
|
Midland Web Consultancy
|
5,600
|
The Policy Institute
|
5,397
|
Open Interface Ltd
|
5,055
|
Bill O’Herlihy Communications Group
|
5,047
|
Community & Enterprise Department
|
5,000
|
Sligo Traveller Support Grp
|
4,960
|
Prospectus Ltd.
|
4,871
|
Una Ryan, Research
|
4,600
|
Excellence Ireland
|
4,214
|
ESRI
|
3,594
|
Richard Pawson and Associates
|
3,542
|
Community Legal Resource
|
3,334
|
Rowena Fitzsimons Solr
|
3,283
|
LAN Communications
|
2,542
|
Blue Wave Technology
|
2,541
|
Irish Nutrition & Dietetic Inst.
|
2,500
|
A & L Goodbody Solicitors
|
2,407
|
Mel Cousins, Research
|
2,178
|
Core Computer Consultants Ltd.
|
1,742
|
Capita Business Services Ltd
|
1,516
|
Matheson Ormsby Prentice
|
1,452
|
Eircom
|
1,392
|
Frank O'Brien Ltd.
|
1,210
|
Dennis Agnew Ltd.
|
1,127
|
University College Dublin
|
1,120
|
Management Support Services Ltd.
|
1,065
|
DSP Global Ltd
|
1,004
|
S.H.B Careers Development Unit
|
882
|
Morse
|
750
|
Olivia O’Leary
|
605
|
SQT Training Ltd.
|
550
|
Insight Multimedia
|
448
|
Hosting 365 Ltd
|
206
|
Total
|
3,009,247
|