Catering, soft and hard facilities management services provision

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Dear University of Edinburgh,

I would like to request further information about the University’s catering, soft facilities management services and hard facilities management services.

Please can the University indicate whether each of their catering, cleaning, security, waste management, proactive and reactive estate management services are contracted out, or delivered in-house. If any of your services are contracted out, please provide the following details for each outsourced contract (in excel format):

• Contract name
• Contract start date
• Contract end date
• If there is the potential to extend the contract beyond the end date, and if so, by how many years
• Annual contract value
• Name of the current contractor
• The contact details of the person responsible for procuring the services

Yours faithfully,

A J Dean

Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

Dear A J Dean

Thank you for your email of 27 July 2020 requesting information about facilities management contracts.

As explained in our automatic reply message, the University’s working arrangements are affected by the Coronavirus outbreak. Unfortunately, I am currently unable to tell you exactly when you will receive a response to your request. However, I can confirm that it is actively being progressed and that we are making all efforts to respond to your request promptly. The Scottish Information Commissioner’s Office has issued a statement about requests during the Covid-19 pandemic which you may find helpful.

If you are unhappy with the way the University has handled your request, you do have the right to ask the University to conduct an internal review of the reasons for the delay. The Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance about this during the Covid-19 pandemic is available on their website. If you wish to submit a review request you should write to the Records Management Section (using this email address), describing the original request, explaining your grounds for dissatisfaction, and including an address for correspondence. When the review process is complete, if you are still dissatisfied, you may use the Scottish Information Commissioner’s guidance on making an appeal to make an appeal to the Commissioner.

The University of Edinburgh's request privacy notice, which describes how we use the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is published on the University website.

Yours sincerely

Rob Don
Information Compliance Officer
Records Management Section
The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8 9YL

Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]
Website: http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

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Records Management, University of Edinburgh

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Dear A J Dean

 

Thank you for your email of 28 July 2020 requesting information about
facilities management contracts. Please find our response attached. Please
accept our apologies for the delay to our response to your request.

The University of Edinburgh's privacy notice, which describes how we use
the information you have supplied about yourself and your request, is
available on-line at
[1]https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/....

Yours sincerely

 

 

Rob Don

Information Compliance Officer

Records Management Section

The University of Edinburgh | Old College | South Bridge | Edinburgh | EH8
9YL

 

Email: [University of Edinburgh request email]

Website: [2]http://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management

 

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland,
with registration number SC005336.

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