Church Commissioners written question – answered at on 6 December 2004.
Roger Godsiff
Labour, Birmingham, Sparkbrook and Small Heath
To ask the hon. Member for Middlesborough, representing the Church commissioners, what the (a) projected cost at the time of tender and (b) actual cost at the time of completion was for each IT contract commissioned by the Commission over the last five years.
Stuart Bell
Second Church Estates Commissioner
The Church commissioners do not generally tender for IT services; these are provided under a common service agreement by the Archbishops' Council.
The exception is a project to register the Commissioners' rural property interests in compliance with the Land Registration Act 2002, whose IT element is projected to cost £163,000 plus VAT. This will not be completed until December 2007 but we expect actual cost to match this projection.
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