I.t suppliers/costs

James Connely made this Freedom of Information request to Department for Children, Schools and Families

The request was refused by Department for Children, Schools and Families.

From: James Connely

3 March 2010

Dear Department for Children, Schools and Families,

I would like to request a complete list of suppliers/contractors
and consultants that have been used over the past financial year
when
procuring I.t hardware and the total spend on i.t hardware during
the past financial year.

I would also like to request full details of the person(s) who
conduct the i.t purchasing there.

Please confirm receipt of my request.

Yours faithfully,

James Connely

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

4 March 2010

Dear James

Thank you for your recent email. A reply will be sent to you as soon as
possible. For information, the departmental standard for correspondence
received is that responses should be sent within 20 working days as you
are requesting information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2010/0016956

Thank you.

Central Allocation Team

Public Communications Team

Tel: 0870 0002288
www.dcsf.gov.uk

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Department for Children, Schools and Families

16 March 2010

Dear Mr Connely,
Thank you for your request for information, which was received on 3 March
2010. You requested a complete list of suppliers/contractors and
consultants that the Department for Children Schools and Families has used
over the past financial year when procuring IT hardware and the total
spend on IT hardware during the past financial year. You also requested
full details of the person(s) who conduct the IT purchasing within the
Department. I have dealt with your request under the Freedom of
Information Act 2000 ("the Act").

Although the Department holds the information you have requested, it is
not held centrally. The Department estimates that the cost of complying
with your request would exceed the cost threshold applicable to central
Government. This is -L-600 and represents the estimated cost of one person
spending 3 1/2 working days locating, retrieving and extracting the
information.

However, to be helpful, with reference to previous similar requests for
information, I can tell you that the majority of the Department's internal
desktop PCs, laptops and servers are Dell computers; that some of the key
IT suppliers used for procuring internal IT are Dell, British Telecom
(BT), Hewlett Packard (HP), Computa Center, Fujitsu and DSG (Equanet); and
that a number of colleagues are responsible for procuring IT hardware
products used internally within the Department, many of whom report to
Tony Cottrell, the Deputy Director of Service Delivery Unit in the
Department's Chief Information Officer Group.

If you have any queries about this response, please contact me remembering
to quote the reference number in any future communications.

If you are unhappy with the way your request has been handled, you should
make a complaint to the Department by writing to me within two calendar
months of the date of this letter. Your complaint will be considered by
an independent review panel, who were not involved in the original
consideration of your request.

If you are not content with the outcome of your complaint to the
Department, you may then contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Yours sincerely,

Huw Evans
Chief Information Officer Group
[email address]
[1]www.dcsf.gov.uk

Your correspondence has been allocated the reference number 2010/0016956.

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