Professional Services Procurement Spend

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Dear Bedford Borough Council,

Professional Services Procurement Spend

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,

Daniel Smith

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Dear Daniel Smith

 

Request pursuant to Freedom of Information Act 2000 – Request No.16479

 

I refer to your enquiry submitted from 5^th October 2020, for information
held by the Council.

 

On behalf of Bedford Borough Council I would like to send my sincerely
apologies for not getting in contact sooner and for not supplying a full
response, due to impact of Coronavirus pandemic we were not able to fulfil
your request.

 

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confirmation and we will action this as a priority.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

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