Response 3713739
Response to request for information
Reference
3713739
Response date
22 April 2025
Request
- Expenditure on the Big Four consultancies
- Total amount spent with each of the following firms, broken down by financial year: PwC, EY, Deloitte, and KPMG.
- The highest day rate paid to each of these firms in each financial year.
- Expenditure on other management consultants
- Total amount spent on management consulting services excluding the Big Four, broken down by consultancy and financial year.
- For each engagement, please include:
- The name of the consultancy firm
- The financial year of the expenditure
- A brief description of the project or services provided (e.g. project title or internal reference)
- The start and end dates of the engagement (or anticipated end date if ongoing)
- The procurement route used (e.g. open competition, framework agreement, direct award) and the name of the procurement framework, if applicable
- Additional Information (if available without exceeding cost limits)
If it is possible within the cost limit:
- Please state the number of individual consultants provided by each firm for each engagement.
- Please indicate whether any deliverables were produced (e.g. reports, action plans) and whether these are publicly available.
- Please confirm whether any of the consultancy work covered tasks that would normally be performed by in-house council staff or roles that were vacant at the time.
Response
- Expenditure on the Big Four consultancies
- Zero
- Not applicable
- Expenditure on other management consultants
- Zero
- Not applicable
- Additional Information (if available without exceeding cost limits)
- Zero
- Not applicable