Dear Mr Griffiths

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION: Procurement of Contractors and Construction Consultancy Services

Thank you for your request for information about procurement of construction contractors and consultancy services, which we received on 20/04/2010. We are dealing with your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA)

Following careful consideration, I can inform you that we have decided not to disclose some of this information.

I enclose a copy of the information which can be disclosed:

On the 1^st April 2009 Defra entered into contract with Interserve Fm Ltd for Sustainable Workplace Management.

Defra currently procures Construction Consultancy Services through the Interserve Sustainable Workplace Management contract, or Office of Government Commerce(OGC) frameworks.

Defra currently procures Construction Contractors through the Interserve Sustainable Workplace Management contract, or OGC frameworks.

Sustainable Built Environment Workplace Support contract, now

known as the Sustainable Workplace Management Contract, providing facilities

management, and delivery of multi-disciplinary construction consultancy and

design & build services.

Interserve FM

The Interserve contract agreement started 1st April 2009, it is due to expire on 31st March 2024

d. Any possible extension periods to the frameworks:

None

e. The name and contact email of person responsible for the frameworks:

This information is being withheld as it falls under the exemption in section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, which relates to personal information, and is an absolute exemption.

In keeping with the spirit and effect of the Act, all information is assumed to be releasable to the public unless exempt. The information you requested may now be published on our website together with any related information that will provide a key to its wider context.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. I also attach an annexe giving contact details should you be unhappy with the service you have received.

Yours sincerely

Jane Rodger

Fax 01904 456394

Email [email address]

Annexe A

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Annex B

Complaints

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your request you may make a complaint or appeal against our decision within 40 working days of the date of this letter. Please write to Clive Porro, Head of Defra's Information Rights Team at, Area1B Ergon House, Horseferry Road, London SW1P 2AL, (email: [email address]) who will arrange for an internal review of your case. Details of Defra's complaints procedure can be found at: http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/policy/opengov/complain/info.htm

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. Please note that generally the Information Commissioner cannot make a decision unless you have first exhausted Defra's own complaints procedure. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner's Office

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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

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