Consultancy Contracts.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 October 2005

Wednesday, 12 October 2005

Ceisteanna (160)

Eamon Gilmore

Ceist:

190 Mr. Gilmore asked the Taoiseach the number of contracts awarded by him to outside consultants in respect of each year since 2000; if he will identify the recipient of the contract in each case; the details of the work covered by the contract; the original estimate of the cost of the contract; the final amount paid in respect of each such contract; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28349/05]

Freagraí scríofa

The Taoiseach

Details of all contracts awarded to outside consultants by my Department in respect of each year since 2000 are listed in table 1. Details in respect of bodies under the aegis of my Department are listed in table 2.

Table 1: Department of the Taoiseach

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2000-2002	PricewaterhouseCoopers	eCabinet Consultancy	152,094	152,094
2000	Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD	Study of progress on Partnership	50,789	50,789
2000	Drury Communications	Development of PDMS pack	7,093	7,093
2000	IPA	Development of Guidelines for the preparation of strategy statements & assistance with customer action plans	4,916	4,916
2000	Dominic McCanny	Analysis of HRM Questionnaire	952	952
2000	BFK Design	Development of PDMS pack	14,134	14,134
2001	Hays Management Consultants	Effective systems of feedback on PMDS	45,170	45,774
2001	CBC	Customer Service Guidelines document	152	152
2001	Dr. Jane Pillinger	Equality Diversity Research	38,717	38,717
2001	Arthur Andersen	Management Information Framework	93,440	93,440
2001-2002	Mr. Alex Matheson, OECD	Evaluation of SMI	14,014	14,014
2001-2002	PA Consulting Group	Evaluation of SMI	471,036	491,992
2001	IPA	Preparation of HR Strategy Guidelines document	18,284	18,284
2001-2002	Oracle	Management Information framework	229,623	229,623
2001	Deloitte & Touche	Value for Money Audit of Mobile Phone services	7,618	7,618
2001	IBEC	Review of Health & Safety	4,889	4,889
2001	Hosca Management Consultants	Employee Opinion Survey	12,077	12,077
2002	Octagon Ltd	IT Strategic Principles	8,400	8,400
2002	Dr. Patrick Butler	Evaluation of Customer Action Plans	30,473	30,473
2002	Prof. Philip Lane	Commentary on Better Regulation Submissions	4,500	4,500
2002-2003	Bearing Point	HRMS	103,220	103,220
2003	Watson Wyatt	Employee Opinion Survey	21,300	21,300
2003	Enterprise LSE	London School of Economics provision of training course on regulation	50,820	38,879
2003	Grayling Gilmore PR Consultants*	EU Presidency Logo Launch & Public Relations Campaign	60,000	60,000
2003	Jacobs & Associates	Economic Report	12,947	12,947
2003	Langley Freeman Design Group	Production of Link Newsletter	35,884	35,884
2003	Martin Cave	Economic Report	589	589
2003	Design ID Ltd	Production of Link Newsletter	50,712	50,712
2004	Red Dog Design	EU Presidency Awareness Campaign	65,740	65,740
2004	Des Geraghty	Affordable Housing Initiative	1,050	1,050
2004	Hay Group Ireland Ltd		4,670	4,670
2004	Carr Communications	Disability Bill	12,147	12,147
2004	Good Practice Ltd	Tailoring of on-line toolkit for Department Intranet	33,350	33,350
2004	McCann Fitzgerald	Redress Report	45,375	76,894
2004	Watson Wyatt	Employee Opinion Survey	27,947	27,947
2004	The Design Consultancy	Step by Step Guide to the PMDS System	4,719	4,719
2004	Carr Communications	Development and delivery of Career Development Programme	68,100	62,646
2004	Paddy Walley	Ingenuity Project	6,000	6,000
2004	Grayling Gilmore	PR re EU Presidency	21,023	21,023
2004	Red Dog Design	EU Presidency Posters	2,060	2,060
2004	David Donaghy	Day of Welcomes production	28,900	28,900
2004	Academic Conferences Ltd	ECEG Conference Management	53,240	53,240
2004	Langley Freeman Design Group	Production of Link Newsletter	140,000	146,000
2004	HCM International	Research on the integration of the PMDS system with HR policies and processes	39,930	Ongoing
2004-2005	Goodbody Economic Consultants	Economic assistance to Departments piloting regulatory Impact Analysis	21,780	21,054 ongoing
2004	RTE	EU Presidency Consultancy Services	35,256	35,256
2004	Elucidate	eCabinet Design Summary Screen	8,546	8,546
2005	Tansey, Webster Stewart & Co	Affordable Housing Proposal	9,680	9,680
2005	Hay Group (Ireland) Ltd	Business Plan Facilitation	3,876	3,876
2005	Graham and Stapleton Design Consultants	Progress report on Special Initiatives	6,345	6,345
2005	Pan Research Ltd	Customer Service Evaluation Report	6,313	6,313
2005	Des Geraghty	Affordable Housing Initiative	2,625	2,625
2005	Design Consultancy	Design for Strategy Statement	809	809
2005	Design Consultancy	Guide to Government Buildings	11,809	11,809
2005	Enterprise LSE	Training course on regulation	59,600	41,343
2005	First Impression	Design of “Reaching Out” Guidelines on Consultation for Public Sector Bodies	10,200	13,225
2005	First Impression	Design of report on the introduction of Regulatory Impact Analysis	8,200	14,254
2005	Slick Fish Design	Design & Print of “Guidelines on Regulatory Impact Anaysis”	21,059	Ongoing
2005	Boyd Freeman Design	Three-year rolling contract for the production of LINK newsletter	324,500	101,385 ongoing
2002-2005	InVision Research Ltd	Developing and implementing the eCabinet initiative, including business process analysis, design and software systems development and transition to application maintenance		1,236,217 ongoing

*Met from funds provided by the Department of Foreign Affairs.

Prior to commencement of the e-Cabinet project, PwC was engaged as consultant to advise on its feasibility. Details are given in the table above. Since then, the main expenditure on eCabinet has been in respect of development rather than consultancy. The software developers are the InVision Research Corporation. The original estimate for the project set out in the PwC feasibility study in 2001 was up to €6.45 million at 2001 values. The fixed price contract negotiated with InVision is for a total amount of €952,000. The final cost of the project, which will also include security, hardware, software licences, support and maintenance, etc. is expected to be around €5 million. That includes the cost of a small number of additional service providers engaged to build the infrastructure and to provide security for the system.

Table 2: Bodies under the aegis of the Department of the Taoiseach.

Information Society Commission
Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2000	MRBI	Research into awareness and usage of information and communications technology amongst Irish businesses	21,332	21,332
2000	MRBI	Research into General Public Awareness and usage of ICT	32,355	32,355
2000	Paul Tanney	Report on Personal use of technology	317	317
2000	NW Labs	To examine the issues of convergence and the implications for telecommunications communications regulation in Ireland	26,977	26,977
2000	Centre for Research in Technology in Education	Research Material for Seminar	20,890	20,890
2000	Dunnion Partners	Development of Government websites review and report	4,609	4,609
2000	KMPG	Investigation of tax incentives & barriers to eworking in Ireland	6,349	6,349
2000	Barry McCall	Copywriting of Business & General Research reports	1,371	1,371
2000	Farrell Grant	Research into future needs for Irelands development as an Information Society	30,669	30,669
2001	Chapman Flood Mazars	Auditing services supplied for Equalskills initiative	19,600	19,600
2002	Chinook Consulting	Evaluation of Equalskills Initiative	18,165	18,165
2002	ElectricNews.net	Production of eGovernment Ireland Bulletin	24,040	24,040
2002	Text 100	Messaging Workshop of ISC members	6,655	6,655
2002	MRBI	Business survey on attitudes to the Information Society in Ireland	28,740	28,740
2002	MRBI	General Public survey on attitudes to the Information Society in Ireland	56,628	56,628
2002-2003	Models Research (now Itech Research)	Consultancy and report on inclusive Information Society Development	59,931	59,931
2002	Accenture	Consultancy and report on a National ePayments strategy	155,334	155,334
2002-2005	Fleischman-Hillard Saunders	Engaged on a retainer basis to manage a communications and media strategy for the ISC	133,677	133,677
2003	Parallel IT	Electronic Document Management Exchange	13,613	13,613
2003	Sonas Innovation	Consultancy and report on Irelands Broadband Future	49,610	49,610
2003	CBC	Editorial Work on Broadband report	3,993	3,993
2003	DCU	Research on Perspectives of Information Society Thinkers	6,655	6,655
2003	ESRI	Analysis of General Public and Business Surveys 1996-2002	7,260	7,260
2004	Version 1 Software	Report on the assessment of the eHealth progress and potential benefits	48,400	48,400
2005	William Desmond	Ethics Conference	991	991

National Forum on Europe

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2002	Keating and Assoicates	Media Strategy and market Survey	6,278	6,278
2002-2005	Caroline Erskine	PR Consultancy	179,589	Ongoing
2002-2005	Conor Joyce	PR Consultancy	85,568	Ongoing

All Party Committee on the Constitution

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2001	Gerard Hogan S.C.	Research on Referenda	480	480
2000	Moss Technologies	Year 2000 Compliance	307	307
2000-2001	Shelbourne Public Affairs	PR	16,837	16,837
2000	Sureskills.com	IT Support	3,687	3,687
2000-2001	Diarmuid Rossa Phelan	Legal research	6,200	6,200
2001	Richard Humphreys	Research on rights	16,349	16,349
2002	Sean de Freine	Feasibility study	500	500
2002-2003	Donal O’Maolfabhaile	PR Consultancy	11,600	11,600

Tribunal of Inquiry (Payments to Messrs. Charles Haughey and Michael Lowry)

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2000	Confidential	Commercial research	3,851	3,851
2001	Ionet Ltd	Demonstration	107	107
2001	Moss technology	Report on Tribunal IT network and system	3,055	3,055
2003	Confidential	Specialist Data etc	46,948	46,948
2004	Peter Bacon & Associates	Analysis and Advice	50,820	50,820

National Centre for Partnership and Performance

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2001-2002	Bradley McGurk Partnership	Corporate Identity	25,242	25,242
2001	Woodgrange Consultancies	Irish Times 2000	7,999	7,999
2001	Bill Roche	Consultative Process and Strategic Planning	31,743	31,743
2001	Tom Neville	Guidelines on Organisational change	20,570	20,570
2001-2003	Bradley McGurke	Corporate Identity	1,116	1,116
2002	Options Consultancy	Information & Consultation Project	5,445	5,445
2002-2003	Options Consultancy	Learning Strategy	2,420	2,420
2003	Options Consultancy	Learning Strategy	11,206	11,206
2003	Tom Neville	Employee Financial Involvement	30,949	30,949
2003	Paern Kandola	Competency Development	11,206	11,206
2003	ESRI	Surveys (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	76,481	76,481
2003	Align Management Solutions	Health Strategy using a Partnership Approach	7,000	7,000
2003	Roy Greene	Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	4,980	4,980
2003	Maria Maguire	Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	26,988	26,988
2003	John Geary	Scoping paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	5,600	5,600
2003	Align Management Solutions	Consultation paper (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	1,400	1,400
2004	Brian Moss	Forum on the Workplace of the Future	9,600	9,600
2004	William Roche	Forum on the Workplace of the Future	13,197	13,197
2004	Maria Maguire	Forum on the Workplace of the Future	13,672	13,672
2004	John Caden	Public Relations	83,445	83,445
2004	ESRI	Surveys (Forum on the Workplace of the Future)	28,785	28,785
2005	Maria Maguire	Forum on the Workplace of the Future	11,514	11,514

National Economic and Social Forum

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2000	Agtel	Social Housing	38,092	38,092
2000	NI Housing Executive	Social Housing	7,389	7,389
2000	C. O’Connell	Social Housing	1,206	1,206
2000	Freda Keeshan	Lone Parents	2,971	2,971
2000	Hay Consultants	Labour Shortages	2,920	2,920
2000	Mary Murphy	Labour Shortages	1,778	1,778
2001	Kieran McKeown	Lone Parents	6,223	6,223
2000	Anne Clark	Lone Parents	4,400	4,400
2000	NUI Maynooth	Lone Parents	7,927	7,927
2000	Goodbody	Draft opinion on National Anti Poverty Strategy	3,143	3,143
2000	UCD (Equality Studies Centre)	Draft Opinion on Equality issues	18,056	18,056
2000	Professor Chris McCrudden	Draft Opinion on Equality issues	2,184	2,184
2001	Ian O’Donnell	Prisoners and ex-offenders	6,096	6,096
2001	Tamarron	Work on NESF Report No. 23	5,079	5,079
2002	ESRI (Brian Nolan)	Health	8,832	8,832
2002	ESRI (Emer Smyth)	Early School Leavers	3,892	3,892
2002	Maureen Lynott	Evaluation of working arrangements	3,239	3,239
2002	Eithne Fitzgerald	Older workers	3,600	3,600
2002	Jerry Sexton	Older workers	15,392	15,392
2002	ESRI Survey	Older workers	15,730	15,730
2002	ESRI Questionnaire	Social Capital	12,342	12,342
2002	PA Consulting Services Ltd	LGB’s	8,105	8,105
2002	Ann Clarke	Older workers	3,282	3,282
2003	Mary Murphy	NAPS	400	400
2003	Carmel Corrigan	NAPS	3,939	3,939
2003	Mary Murphy	Child Income support paper	1,440	1,440
2003	Bernard McDonagh	LGB’s	1,431	1,431
2004	Ita Mangan	Co-op	3,030	3,030
2005	Peter Humphries	Delivery of Quality Public Services	1,236	1,236
2005	C. Corrigan	NAPS	1,970	1,970
2005	Brian Nolan	NAPS	1,252	1,252
2005	Colm Harmon	Early Childhood Care and Education	6,323	6,323
2005	RAND Europe	Evidence Based Policy Making Seminar	£6,737stg.	£6,737stg.
2005	WRC Consultants	Creating a more inclusive labour market	15,094	15,094
2005	Patricia Quinn	Cultural Citizenship	15,150	15,150
2005	Eustace Patterson	Creating a more inclusive labour market	4,292	4,292

National Economic and Social Council

Year of Contract	Supplier	Description	Estimated Cost	Total Expenditure
			€	€
2001	ESRI	Research re Strategic review of Tax and Welfare system under PPF	12,697	12,697
2001	Sile O’Connor	Research for reports 107 & 108	6,984	6,984
2001	J Visser	Paper for Report No 111	13,069	13,069
2001	Indecon Consultants	Regional Development in the North West	21,202	21,202
2003	Edgeworth Organisational Consultants	PR Consultancy	1,200	1,200
2004	UPE Consultancy Ltd	Housing Workshop	7,139	7,139
2004	Kathleen Scanlon	Housing Workshop	889	889
2004	Bill O’Herlihy Communications	Professional Services for NESC’s 30th Anniversary Conference	3,779	3,779
2004	Katholieke Universiteit	Housing Workshop	3,147	3,147
2004	Prof. G Meen	Housing Workshop	1,538	1,538
2004	Bill O’Herlihy Communications	Professional Services for EESC Conference	3,025	3,025
2004	Intl. Org. for Migration	Consultancy fees for NESC Migration Policy Study	119,692	119,692
2005	O’Herlihy Communications	Professional Services for media coverage of housing report	4,273	4,273
2005	Ms Bernadette Andreosso	Consultancy fees for “Ireland & Globalisation” Strategy report	7,000	7,000