List of I.T Suppliers & costs

Dear Mr Connely

Reference No: RFI2009000685

Thank you for your request for information dated 01/10/2009 concerning IT
Hardware.

This request will be dealt with under the terms of the Freedom of
Information Act 2000.

Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Thames Valley Police may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Shields

Freedom of Information Administrator

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Dear Mr Connely

Reference No: RFI2009000685

 

I write in connection with your request for information dated 01/10/2009
which for clarity, I repeat:

I would like to request a complete list of suppliers/contractors and
consultants that have been used over the past year when procuring I.T
hardware and the total spend on I.T hardware during the past year. Also
could you break this hardware spend down to show what brand servers,
networking and desktop hardware were purchased with a spend amount in each
segment.

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

With regards to the first part of your request, the information is not
held routinely in an easily retrievable format or at the level you require
on ICT systems used by Thames Valley Police.  Any attempt to retrieve the
information specific to your request would involve a complicated and
prolonged search of records which would not necessarily provide accurate
results and would exceed the appropriate cost limit of £450.

The cost of providing you with the information is above the amount we are
legally required to respond i.e. the cost of locating and retrieving the
information exceeds the "Appropriate Limit" as stated in the Freedom of
Information (Fees and Appropriate Limit) Regulations 2004.

Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act allows that public
authorities do not have to comply with section 1(1) of the Act if the cost
of complying would exceed the appropriate limit.  It is Thames Valley
Police general policy that should a request for information exceed the
appropriate level then we will exercise our legal right not to respond but
cases will be assessed individually to consider the implications.

In accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, this letter represents
a Refusal Notice for this part of your request.

With regards to the second part of your request, please find details of
the Senior Contract Manager in Procurement below:

Name:     Norman Bunce

Address: Procurement Department,

                Thames Valley Police,

                Kingfisher Court,

                Oxford Spires Business Park,

                Kidlington,

                Oxon,

                OX5 2NX

Email Address: [1][email address]

Phone Number: 01865 293 762

Please contact me quoting the above reference number if you would like to
discuss this matter further and may I take this opportunity to thank you
for your interest in Thames Valley Police.

Yours sincerely,

Jane Shields

Freedom of Information Administrator

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