IDENT1 contract

Ganesh Sittampalam made this Freedom of Information request to National Policing Improvement Agency

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

7 July 2009

Dear Sir or Madam,

I request a copy of the contract plus any appendices and indexes
for the IDENT1 system, as referred to in the Information
Commissioner's recent decision notice FS50125350.

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

8 July 2009

Dear Ganesh Sittampalam

Thank you for your recent request for information, about IDENT1 contract, dated 7th July 2009. Your request was received on 7th July 2009 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We have logged your request which is receiving our attention. Your request reference number is 46823.

Please quote this reference number in any further correspondence or call relating to this enquiry.

Further information about the NPIA is routinely published on our website at www.npia.police.uk or through our publication scheme. If you require any further assistance in connection with this request please contact us at our address below.

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NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

23 July 2009

Attachment NRSB99 0111 090723 Final Response 46823.pdf
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Attachment Schedule M HR and TUPE.pdf
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Attachment Schedule N Exit Strategy.pdf
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Attachment Schedule O Documentation.pdf
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Attachment Schedule P Dispute Resolution Procedure.pdf
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Attachment Schedule Q Part A Contractor s Solution.pdf
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Attachment Schedule Q Part B System Description.pdf
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Attachment Schedule Q Part C Glossary.pdf
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Attachment Schedule R Livescan and EIU s.pdf
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Attachment Schedule R annex R 2 Livescan Services Description.pdf
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Attachment Schedule R annex R 3 Livescan Functional Requirements Sp.pdf
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Attachment Schedule S Software and IPR and Third Party Contracts.pdf
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Attachment Schedule T Assets.pdf
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Attachment Schedule U Ordering Procedure.pdf
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Attachment Schedule V Authority s Responsibilities.pdf
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Attachment Schedule W Parent Company Guarantee.pdf
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Dear Ganesh Sittampalam

Please find attached the NPIA's response to your request.

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NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

Your right to complain

We take our responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act seriously but, if you feel your request has not been properly handled or you are otherwise dissatisfied with the outcome of your request, you have the right to complain. We will investigate the matter and endeavour to reply within 3 – 6 weeks. You should write to:

David Horne
Director of Resources
National Policing Improvement Agency
10-18 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0NN

E-mail: [email address]

If you are still dissatisfied following our internal review, you have the right, under section 50 of the Act, to complain directly to the Information Commissioner. Before considering your complaint, the Information Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints procedures provided by the NPIA. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

23 July 2009

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Your response appears to only include schedules M-W - is that an
oversight?

Yours sincerely,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

24 July 2009

Attachment Schedule A Form of Contract.pdf
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Attachment Schedule B Key Terms 04 Sep 03.pdf
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Attachment Schedule C Definitions.pdf
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Attachment Schedule D Detailed Operational Requirements.zip
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Attachment Schedule F Service Level Requirements.pdf
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Attachment Schedule F Part 2 Operational Service Level.pdf
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Attachment Schedule F Part 3 Livescan Service Level Requirements.pdf
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Attachment Schedule G Transition.pdf
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Attachment Schedule H Acceptance Procedures.pdf
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Attachment Schedule I Contract Management.pdf
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Attachment Schedule J Access and Inspection of Records.pdf
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Attachment Schedule K Security.pdf
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Attachment Schedule L Change Control Procedure.pdf
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Dear Ganesh Sittampalam

Please accept our apologies as this was an oversight on our part.

Please see attached the remaining attachments to your response.

Regards

NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

24 July 2009

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Thanks very much. I notice that Schedule E is still missing; if
it's your intention to withhold this please could you provide a
proper refusal notice stating the exemption(s) and public interest
arguments as appropriate?

Thanks,

Ganesh

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

27 July 2009

Dear Ganesh,

Thank you for your response.

Our interpretation of your request was for those Schedules referred to in the Information Commissioners Decision Notice (Case Ref: FS50125350). Schedule E was considered exempt information, a point conceded and not pursued by the original applicant, and therefore it was not considered by the Information Commissioner as part of his decision.

I have logged this request for Schedule E, as a new request (ref: 46855)

Regards,

Andy Woodgate
FOI Compliance Manager
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Mobile: +44 (0)7714 711020
Email: [email address]
Web www.npia.police.uk

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

27 July 2009

Dear Andy,

I'm sorry you misinterpreted my request, as I thought it was clear
and unambiguous. If I had wanted just the information already
released or ordered to be released, I'd have said so. I only
mentioned the decision notice at all to be precise about which
document I was referring to.

In any case, please consider releasing this schedule (and if not
the whole thing then as much as possible) as there is a clear
public interest in knowing how much the government is spending on a
major IT procurement exercise such as this one and since the
contract is such a bespoke one it is very unlikely to prejudice
future pricing negotiations for either party.

Regards,

Ganesh

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

17 August 2009

Attachment NRSB99 0111 090817 Final response 46855.pdf
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Dear Ganesh Sittampalam

Please find attached the NPIA's response to your request.

Regards

NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

Your Right to Complain

We take our responsibilities under the Freedom of Information Act seriously but, if you feel your request has not been properly handled or you are otherwise dissatisfied with the outcome of your request, you have the right to complain. We will investigate the matter and endeavour to reply within 3 – 6 weeks. You should write to:

David Horne
Director of Resources
National Policing Improvement Agency
10-18 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0NN

E-mail: [email address]

If you are still dissatisfied following our internal review, you have the right, under section 50 of the Act, to complain directly to the Information Commissioner. Before considering your complaint, the Information Commissioner would normally expect you to have exhausted the complaints procedures provided by the NPIA. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

FOI Compliance Team (complaints)
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Further information about the NPIA is routinely published on our website at www.npia.police.uk or through our publication scheme. If you require any further assistance in connection with this request please contact us at our address above.

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

17 August 2009

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

The reply says that you are disclosing a redacted version of
schedule E, but I can't spot it in anywhere - did you miss out an
attachment?

Thanks,

Ganesh

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

17 August 2009

Attachment Document.pdf
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Ganesh,

Apologies, here is the document.

Thanks

Andy.

Andy Woodgate
FOI Compliance Manager
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

16 September 2009

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Thanks for that. Could I have an internal review of the redactions,
please?

Firstly, I do not think you can apply section 41 here at all:
http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/l...

Secondly, I would like you to review the application of section 43.
I do not accept your assertion that pricing information for a
long-running bespoke contract is likely to disclose useful
information to competititors. In addition, your redactions seem to
have been overly enthusiastic, in that all values have been removed
from the document regardless of why they were there. These can be
split into three categories:

(1) Actual prices of services
(2) Expenses [8.5.3(b)]
(3) Example figures just to demonstrate calculations

Even if you continue to redact (1) [which I also disagree with], I
can see no reason for either (2) or (3) to be omitted. In the case
of (3) the contract is clear that they are just for illustration,
whereas in the case of (2) this is not pricing information but
rather information about typical expenses incurred.

For values that you do continue to redact, please consider not
redacting the entire value (e.g. £53582 could be redacted as
£5xxxx), or replacing it with a range within which they fall to
give an idea of the scale of the costs, in a similar way to how
salary information for senior staff is disclosed. Even if precise
numbers would prejudice commercial interests, the general range
would not.

Finally, I think that my original request clearly stated the
information I was asking for, and you breached the time limits by
not sending this part in the time allowed. Omitting parts of the
original request and then treating a follow-up email as a fresh
request is something you were criticised for by the ICO in
FS50125350 so it's disappointing to see you're still doing it.

Yours sincerely,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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From: Horne David
National Policing Improvement Agency

30 September 2009

Dear Mr Sittampalam,

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you regarding the internal reviews that you have requested.

The delay is as a result of a change in the way that the Agency deals with Internal Reviews.

Grateful if you could bear with us for a few more weeks, we hope to be in a position to reply to you by 23rd October 2009.

Thanks
David Horne

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From: Hollick Tom
National Policing Improvement Agency

22 October 2009

Mr Sittampalam

Please see the attached letter from David Horne in response to your internal review application.

Many thanks

Tom

Tom Hollick
Staff Officer to David Horne

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From: Hollick Tom
National Policing Improvement Agency

22 October 2009

Attachment FOIA GSittampalam.doc
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Sorry - the document failed to attach first time.

Tom

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation ( 2 December 2009)

FS50280571

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation ( 3 September 2010)

I've just received a decision notice dated 31st August dismissing the NPIA arguments in favour of the exemptions and ordering full disclosure within 35 days (unless appealed).

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From: Ganesh Sittampalam

4 October 2010

Dear National Policing Improvement Agency,

I'd like to remind you that unless you have appealed this decision
(FS50280571), disclosure of this information is due on October 5th.

Yours faithfully,

Ganesh Sittampalam

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From: NPIA FOI Team
National Policing Improvement Agency

5 October 2010

Attachment NRSB99 0111 101005 schedule e 47123.pdf
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Dear Ganesh Sittampalam,

Please find attached the information to be released as a result of the Decision Notice .

<<NRSB99-0111 101005 schedule e 47123.pdf>>

Regards,

NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency
Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

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