By email
Ref: 10/02/16/lk/036
Health Protection Agency
Communications
Mr James Connely
Public Information Access
[FOI #29082 email]
61 Colindale Avenue
London
NW9 5EQ
Tel +44 (0)20 8327 6920
Fax +44 (0)20 8327 6633
17 March 2010
www.hpa.org.uk
Email: [Health Protection Agency request email]
Dear Mr Connely
Re: IT hardware
Thank you for your Freedom of Information request dated 16 February 2010
regarding the Health Protection Agency’s (HPA) IT hardware.
In accordance with section 1 (1) (a) of the Act I can confirm that we do some of the
information you require.
Total revenue spend on hardware in the 11 months to February 2010 was £1.388m.
Total capital spend on Information Systems (which includes software) in the same
period was £1.68m.
The top 20 suppliers of minor (revenue) hardware items are as follows:
TRACLINE (UK) LIMITED
SUPPLIES TEAM UK
DELL FINANCIAL SERVICES
FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS (UK) LTD
INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTD
MISCO COMPUTER SUPPLIES LTD
KEDNOS CORPORATION
SECON SOLUTIONS LTD
DYNAX SYSTEMS LIMITED
BARCLAYCARD
DELL COMPUTER CORPORATION LTD
CCS MEDIA LIMITED
JOHN WILSON
BANNER BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED
REDSTONE CONVERGED SOLUTIONS LIMITED
COMPUTER IMPRINTABLE LABEL SYSTEMS LTD
NOVATECH UK LIMITED
EQUANET
2E2 SOLUTIONS LIMITED
UNINTERRUPTIBLE POWER SUPPLIES LIMITED
The top 20 suppliers of capital IT items (which include software) were:
INSIGHT DIRECT (UK) LTD
225,613
INFACT UK LTD
188,265
FREEDOM COMMUNICATIONS (UK) LTD
152,922
ORACLE CORPORATION UK LTD
138,408
GSS PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LIMITED
99,764
KPMD IT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
66,240
TRACLINE (UK) LIMITED
62,572
COMPUTACENTER (UK) LTD
61,073
COMARK LTD
56,263
BT GLOBAL SERVICES
54,678
GLOBAL SECURE SYSTEMS LTD
49,435
WATERS LTD
47,407
ORGANISED COMPUTER SYSTEMS LIMITED
44,705
SYSTEM ASSOCIATES LIMITED
44,551
2E2 SOLUTIONS LIMITED
29,160
CANON (UK) LTD
26,660
LOGICA UK LTD
24,036
BROOK STREET (UK) LIMITED
22,821
JOHNSON CONTROLS LIMITED
21,836
CONCURRENT THINKING LIMITED
21,035
We do not provide names of employees, other than executive directors, working for
us, however, all IT procurement is conducted through specialist staff (either in IT or in
applications development) working with our procurement department. We are not
obliged to disclose personal information; this is in accordance with the section 40
exemption under the Freedom of Information Act.
If you are dissatisfied with this response and would like a copy of the HPA complaints
procedure then please contact Mr George Stafford, Complaints Manager at: Health
Protection Agency, 61 Colindale Avenue, London NW9 5EQ.
Please note that you have the right to an independent review by the Information
Commissioner’s Office if a complaint cannot be resolved through the HPA complaints
procedure. The Information Commissioner’s Office can be contacted by writing to
Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5AF.
Please contact me if you require any further information or assistance.
Yours sincerely
Leigh Kelly
Freedom of Information Officer
Health Protection Agency
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