Professional Services Procurement Spend
Dear Horsham District Council,
I am writing to ask that you please provide me with the spend for your Professional Services procurement at the Authority, by which I mean the procurement of projects and consultancy through Statement of Work excluding temporary agency staff.
• What have you spent on Professional Services over the last 12 months?
• What did the authority spend on professional Services Between April 2019 and March 2020?
• Between April 2019 and March 2020, which categories had the highest level of spend throughout that period?
• Has the authority planned any large construction-based projects over the next two years?
• If you have got construction projects planned, please could you provide project details, budget and timeframes?
• What is the Councils current process to engage with professional service providers? Please could you provide details of the process and name third parties if they are being used.
Yours faithfully,
Fiona Smith
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Dear Fiona Smith
Further to our acknowledgement, please can you clarify exactly what type
of services to include as a professional service?
Yours sincerely
Diane Lambert [3]Horsham
Information Governance Officer District
Council
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Chief Executive: Glen Chipp
From: Fiona Smith <[FOI #701126 email]>
Sent: 22 October 2020 13:37
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Professional Services
Procurement Spend
Dear Horsham District Council,
I am writing to ask that you please provide me with the spend for your
Professional Services procurement at the Authority, by which I mean the
procurement of projects and consultancy through Statement of Work
excluding temporary agency staff.
• What have you spent on Professional Services over the last 12 months?
• What did the authority spend on professional Services Between April 2019
and March 2020?
• Between April 2019 and March 2020, which categories had the highest
level of spend throughout that period?
• Has the authority planned any large construction-based projects over the
next two years?
• If you have got construction projects planned, please could you provide
project details, budget and timeframes?
• What is the Councils current process to engage with professional service
providers? Please could you provide details of the process and name third
parties if they are being used.
Yours faithfully,
Fiona Smith
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Dear Diane,
Thank you for your reply,
By Professional Services I mean procurement of projects and consultancy through Statement of Work that is outside IR35, but excluding temporary agency staff.
Please let me know if you need any further information
Yours sincerely,
Fiona Smith
Dear Fiona Smith
Freedom of Information Act 2000 Response
We can now respond to your request for information dated 22/10/2020,
asking about Professional Services Procurement Spend.
We have dealt with your request in accordance with ‘your right to know’
under section 1(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), which
entitles you to be provided with a copy of any information ‘held’ by a
public authority, unless an appropriate exemption applies.
In your email of 22/10/2020, as clarified on 26/10/2020, you asked the
following questions to which we have added our responses in red text:
· What have you spent on Professional Services over the last 12
months?
Nil.
· What did the authority spend on professional Services Between
April 2019 and March 2020?
Nil.
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Yours sincerely
Diane Lambert [5]Horsham
Information Governance Officer District
Council
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Horsham District Council, Parkside, Chart Way, Horsham, West Sussex RH12
1RL
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Chief Executive: Glen Chipp
From: Fiona Smith <[FOI #701126 email]>
Sent: 26 October 2020 11:41
To: FOI <[email address]>
Subject: Re: HDCIR:4834: Freedom of Information request - Professional
Services Procurement Spend
Dear Diane,
Thank you for your reply,
By Professional Services I mean procurement of projects and consultancy
through Statement of Work that is outside IR35, but excluding temporary
agency staff.
Please let me know if you need any further information
Yours sincerely,
Fiona Smith
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