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Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Bidfood

Asked by Laurence TurnerLabourDepartment for Culture, Media and SportTabled Answered 11 February 2025UIN 28706

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, pursuant to the Answer of 3 February 2025 to Question 26736 on Department for Culture, Media and Sport: Bidfood, what contracts (a) under the value of £12,000 and (b) tendered before 2015 and subsequently extended (i) the BFS Group Limited and (ii) subsidiary companies of BFS Group Limited holds with (A) her Department and (B) agencies of her Department.

Answered by Stephanie Peacock

Core Department:
DCMS does not hold any active contracts, nor any contracts since 1st April 2015 with BFS Group Limited and its subsidiaries. To the best of our knowledge, we do not hold any information on Bidfood contracts tendered before 2015, noting that we do not hold consistent contract records before 2015, as this is prior to the migration to our previous electronic contract management software.

Executive Agencies:
DCMS does not hold executive agency contractual information.

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