Procurement of Consultancy Services

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Benjamin Barnes

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please could you provide a breakdown of which mechanisms you procure consultancy services from, specifically:

1. Do you use national procurement frameworks to procure consultancy?
a. If so, which frameworks do you use, and what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks you are part of.

2. Do you use third party neutral vendors/procurement solution providers (eg ESPO, Bloom, Procurement hub) to procure consultancy?
a. If so which do you use, and what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the vendors you use.

3. Do you use internal frameworks to procure consultancy? (IE frameworks that are not national, that you administer yourselves or share with a small number of other local authorities)
a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spend over the last 12 months has been on each of the frameworks you have and when will they expire/re-open for applications.

4. Have you procured consultancy services through your own unique, project specific tender processes? (for example advertising a tender for a specific consultancy piece of work)
a. If so what proportion of your consultancy spend was procured through this route, and where do you advertise such opportunities?

5. Have you procured consultancy services through any other mechanisms in the last 12 months? (for example direct awards). If so what proportion of your consultancy spend was this for.

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin Barnes

Darlington Borough Council

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Dear Mr Barnes

 

Thank you for your request for information, received 10 July 2019. 

 

We are processing your request in accordance with our Freedom of
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contact you in due course.

 

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Yours sincerely

 

 

Diana Willsher

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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Dear Mr Barnes

 

Request reference number: DBC-1261-19

 

Please find attached the Council’s response to your recent request for
information.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Diana Willsher

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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Dear Darlington Borough Council,

Thanks for your response. As you cannot provide a breakdown, please can you provide me with a list of the frameworks that you use to procure consultancy services.

Yours faithfully,

Benjamin Barnes

Darlington Borough Council

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Dear Mr Barnes

 

Thank you for your request for information, received 06 August 2019. 

 

We are processing your request in accordance with our Freedom of
Information and Environmental Information Request Procedure, which you can
find on our [2]website.

 

If we need more information in order to process your request, we will
contact you in due course.

 

You can expect a full response to your request within 20 working days.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Diana Willsher

Complaints & Information Governance Assistant

(01325) 406777

 

 

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Mr Barnes

The answer to your previous question is as follows:

NEPO503 NEPRO

NEPO212 Construction and Engineering Consultancy

ESPO 3S-18 Strategic HR Services

ESPO 664-17 Consultancy Services

Kind regards

Sue Williamson

Complaints and Information Governance Assistant

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