Bus tender costs

The request was refused by Derbyshire County Council.

Dear Derbyshire County Council,

Please supply for each of the bus services listed below:

Annual tender cost
Tender basis (minimum subsidy / minimum cost)
Annual revenue (including concessionary fares)
Annual passenger numbers
Date that tender is next due for renewal

Bus services:

9, 9A
11 (subsidised services only)
14 (Ilkeston to Sandiacre)
15 (Ilkeston to Sawley)
17
29
59
101
102
103
110
111
113
114
137
138
140
141
142
143
144
147
148
149
150
151
152
153

Yours faithfully,

Peter Nathanail

Access 2 Info (Corporate Resources), Derbyshire County Council

Dear Mr Nathanail,

I write to acknowledge receipt of your request for information received on the 24 October 2017.

We will be processing your request under the Freedom of Information Act 2000. In accordance with the legislation, the deadline for responding is 20 working days from the receipt of the request, this being 21 November 2017. However, we shall endeavour to deal with your request promptly, and if possible before this date.

Yours Sincerely,

Justin Hird
Legal Assistant
For John McElvaney
Director of Legal Services
Derbyshire County Council
County Hall
Matlock
DE4 3AG

Telephone: 01629 539336

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Dear Mr Nathanail

 

Thank you for your request dated 24 October 2017.

 

Your enquiry was as follows:

 

Please supply for each of the bus services listed below:

 

Annual tender cost

Tender basis (minimum subsidy / minimum cost) Annual revenue (including
concessionary fares) Annual passenger numbers Date that tender is next due
for renewal

 

Bus services:

 

9, 9A

11 (subsidised services only)

14 (Ilkeston to Sandiacre)

15 (Ilkeston to Sawley)

17

29

59

101

102

103

110

111

113

114

137

138

140

141

142

143

144

147

148

149

150

151

152

153

 

Please see the below Freedom of Information Act 2000 / Environmental
Information Regulations 2004 response:

 

We do not have the information requested in an individual format as
requested. 

 

Some local bus service contracts are packaged contracts where a number of
services are combined into a package.  We do not have complete information
about revenue, only the bus operator would know this.  There is no
concessionary fare revenue information.  The reimbursement is not
calculated by ourselves and is not calculated per service.  Tenders do not
have a renewal date, they have a review date with most contract being
extended where possible and it is not possible to predict whether this
will occur or not.  Some of the services listed are no longer tendered
services.

 

To extract the data and to do the calculations for the information
requested, where available, would take at least two and a half hours per
service, probably more as the information would need to be gathered from
several different sources, and software packages. It would take the
authority over 18.5 hours to extract the requested information, therefore,
the Council is not obliged to comply with your request under the
legislation.

 

I hope this now satisfies your request.

 

However should you require a review of the response you have received to
your FOI/EIR request, please follow the procedure as set out below:-

 

Stage 1:

 

If you wish to challenge the response, please send your comments to, and
wherever possible, a copy of your request and the covering letter
enclosing the information or refusing your request to:

 

Access to Information Solicitor

Legal Services

Derbyshire County Council

County Hall

Matlock

DE4 3AG

 

Email: [2][Derbyshire County Council request email]

 

Stage 2:

 

After completing the above procedure, if you wish to challenge the
decision further, then you have a right to contact the Information
Commissioner’s Office as follows:

 

Information Commissioner's Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF

         

Telephone: Tel: 0303 123 1113/Fax: 01625 524510

ICO Weblink: [3]http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints.aspx

 

Should you have further questions or queries, please do not hesitate to
get in contact. 

 

Yours sincerely

 

Business Services Officer

Access to Information

Economy, Transport and Environment

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear ETC FOI_EIR (Economy Transport and Environment),

Thank you for your response. What information could you supply quickly and easily relating to tendered bus services in Derbyshire? At the very least, you must be able to supply a full list of tendered services, their operators, and the contract renewal dates. I would hope that you could also supply the cost to the council for each service and the number of passengers carried, otherwise how can you work out value for money?

I look forward to you providing a more constructive and complete response.

Yours sincerely,

Peter

ETC FOI_EIR (Economy Transport and Environment), Derbyshire County Council

Dear Peter

The Access to Information regulations i.e. FOI or EIR (Environmental Information Regulations) is for and relates to any requests received by the council that asks for actual information held by the council in a recorded format at the time at which the request is received.

When making an access to information request you need to be specific about the particular documentation you are seeking, you cannot under this legislation seek officer opinion and we are not obliged to go out and ask officer to use their knowledge and experience to create a relevant response in order to answer questions.

Our response below explained fully the reasons we are unable to respond to your request and this response still stands.

Yours sincerely
Business Services Officer
Access to Information
Economy, Transport and Environment

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