Peter Collingbourne

Email: [FOI #11840 email]

13 April 2010

Dear Mr Collingbourne

Thank you for your email of the 18 March in which you asked for the release of information with regard to Part 3 of both of your original requests dated 28 November 2008 and the 12 May 2009.

In part 3 of your first request in respect of the contract with Thales you asked that we supply a copy of “The Framework Agreement which sets out the core terms for contracts awarded”. In a later request which referred to the contract with CSC you asked for “The Framework Agreement which sets out the core terms for contracts awarded, if different to The Framework Agreement with Thales”.

In response to your requests, the “core terms” you refer to in respect of these contracts are contained within the Service Agreement which we have already made available. The arrangements we hold with all suppliers that are delivering the National Identity Service are standalone contracts that are individual to each supplier. These arrangements draw their core terms from the template Service Agreement that forms part of the Agency's Strategic Supplier Framework contract, which in turn is based broadly around the OGC's IT Model Service contract.

It is our stated intention to publish summaries for not only the remaining contracts with IBM and De La Rue that make up the National Identity Service contract portfolio but also the Strategic Supplier Framework contact by the Summer of 2010.

I hope that this answers your query raised in your email, I am of course happy to provide further detail or information to you should you require it.

Yours sincerely

Bill Crothers

Executive Director

CIO & Commercial

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