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<p>Payments for the last three financial years are as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>Firm</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2012-13
£</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2013-14 £</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>2014-15
£</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Work undertaken</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Beamans
Ltd</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>31,050</p></td><td><p>Costs related
to a pay and grading review</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>BHBi Consultancy Ltd</p></td><td><p>14,800</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Audit
of an ongoing capital project</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Bostock Marketing Group</p></td><td><p>23,025</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>20,238</p></td><td><p>Costs
of the independently-managed Member and staff surveys</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capita
Business Services</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6,913</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Support
for an equal pay audit</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Catering Consultancy Bureau</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>6,128</p></td><td><p>13,662</p></td><td><p>Branding
project for Catering and Retail Services (CRS) outlets and delivery of communications
workshops</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Chartered Institute of Procurement and Supply</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>23,118</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Support
for a review of procurement services</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Government Actuary’s
Department</p></td><td><p>5,400</p></td><td><p>5,000</p></td><td><p>7,500</p></td><td><p>Annual
accounting valuation of the House of Lords staff pension scheme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Helena
Bayler</p></td><td><p>275</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>825</p></td><td><p>Design
and amendment of specialist forms</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Information Accreditor</p></td><td><p>2,125</p></td><td><p>13,770</p></td><td><p>24,735</p></td><td><p>Proportion
of costs to provide the two Houses with assurance on the security of new IT systems</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>JM
HR Solutions Limited</p></td><td><p>15,000</p></td><td><p>7,750</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Human
resource review support</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Panache Consultancy Limited</p></td><td><p>2,952</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Review
of staffing requirements for certain CRS outlets</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Sage Food
Design and Development</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>10,761</p></td><td><p>8,269</p></td><td><p>CRS
consultancy regarding food covering: menus, kitchen production, kitchen organisations
and structure</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Stern Consultancy</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>3,468</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Income
generation project support</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The Litmus Partnership Limited</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>7,982</p></td><td><p>18,400</p></td><td><p>CRS
smarter procurement support and related services including supplier price challenge</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>The
Mystery Dining Company</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>555</p></td><td><p>395</p></td><td><p>Mystery
shopping of catering venues</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Turpin Smale</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>4,400</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>CRS
outlet-specific consultancy to support the Change Programme</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>University
of Portsmouth Ltd</p></td><td><p>4,157</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>-</p></td><td><p>Specialist
support to develop a facility to search for records from the Parliament Archives online
catalogue by place</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>TOTAL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>68,775</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>90,720</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>125,074</strong></p></td><td><p>N/A</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>The
House seeks only to engage external consultant support when it is more economical
to engage specialist services on a fixed term basis than to embed capacity in-House,
when specific external advice is beneficial, or when capacity issues necessitate it.</p><p>Most
of the spending on consultancy in Catering and Retail Services has been to support
an ambitious Change Programme which is seeking to deliver a step change in food quality
and service by empowering individuals in order to provide better value for money to
both the Member and the taxpayer. This investment should help the House reduce the
cost of catering provision.</p>
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