Contracting for Goods and Services

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Dear North East Lincolnshire Council,

Please supply me with the following statistics for your Council for Goods and Services procurement where 'goods' are tangible products such as pens or computers, generally known as supplies; 'works' are "the construction or demolition of buildings, both residential and non-residential, repair to the fabric of these buildings, construction of roads, bridges, tunnels, and the installation of gas, electric, and plumbing services" and 'services' are the provision of an intangible product such as care or refuse collection, whether it is carried out internally or externally. The following payments should be INCLUDED: Goods, Services, Works, Care, other non-Local Authority public bodies (e.g. NHS, HM Courts), outside Borough schools, colleges, universities. The following payments should be EXCLUDED: foster carer payments; payments to pension funds; payments to other local authorities for placement of clients or other non-commercial activities; payments to individuals for expenses, insurance settlements, council tax refunds, NNDR refunds; Benefits payments personal budgets, transfer payments and investments.

The figures should cover (unless stated) the period 1st April 2016 to the 31st March 2017.
1. Council’s net revenue budget.
2. Total value of Goods and Services acquired by the council from third party suppliers.
3. The total number of invoices for goods and services paid by the council during the period 1st April 2016 to the 31st March 2017 whether or not the supplier was contracted to the council or the holder of a framework contract.
4. Cost of procurement management (Total cost of procurement function (staff salaries, on-costs, share of central recharges, dedicated system costs, contracted third party support costs) for a given period).
5. The total number of suppliers (contracted or not) that received a payment for Goods or services.
6. The total number of contracts held by the council as at the 31st March 2017.
7. The total number of contract managers named on the council contract register as at 31 March 2017.
8. Total Number of Contracts awarded by the Council.
9. The total number of contracts that reached their termination date and were renewed by extension without retendering.
10. The % saving (comparing the new contracted price to the old contracted price) in the top 5 valued (Total anticipated spend over the life of the contract) contracted procurements undertaken by the council awarded during the period 1st April 2016 to the 31st March 2017.
11. The total value of Goods and Services spent with suppliers who are defined as a Small and Medium Enterprise according to the DfTI definition.
12. The number of suppliers the spend with which adds up to 80% of the total spend with Third Parties.
13. The total number of contracts held by the council as at the 31st March 2017 with formalised and active contract management (Formalised contract management is viewed as regular, recorded and communicated processes for reviewing progress, issues, performance, outputs and outcomes including remedial action linked to contract terms by a responsible individual or individuals or teams that is active).
14. Total number of contract awards by the council that have been challenged by an unsuccessful tenderer.
15. The total number of suppliers (contracted or not) that received a payment for Goods or services.
16. The total value of third party spend acquired from contracts that were not exclusive to the council arranged with another council or through participation in a contract provided through a Framework.
17. The total value of contracts held by the council as at the 31st March 2017.

Yours faithfully,

phil spring

PPD - FOI, North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Sir / Madam

 

I am pleased to acknowledge your request for information, which has been
allocated the reference number NELC/5318/1718.

Your request has been passed to the relevant department for processing and
you can expect your response within the 20 working day limit. If it will
take us longer than 20 working days to respond to you, we will inform you
of this and provide you with the expected date for receiving a response.

Further information about how we will deal with your Freedom of
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[1]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor....

Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information or
assistance quoting the reference number above.

 

Yours sincerely on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council

 

Feedback Officer

 

 

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PPD - FOI, North East Lincolnshire Council

Dear Mr Spring

 

Thank you for your information request reference 5318_1718. I can confirm
that North East Lincolnshire Council holds the following information.

 

 

1.        Council’s net revenue budget.

 

[1]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor...

 

 2.       Total value of Goods and Services acquired by the council from
third party suppliers.

 

 [2]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor...

 

 

3.       The total number of invoices for goods and services paid by the
council during the period 1st April 2016 to the 31st March 2017 whether or
not the supplier was contracted to the council or the holder of a
framework contract.

 

This information is not held in a reportable format as invoices are not
all centrally managed.

 

4.        Cost of procurement management (Total cost of procurement
function (staff salaries, on-costs, share of central recharges, dedicated
system costs, contracted third party support costs) for a given period).

  

£128,263 is the cost of staff salaries directly attributable to
procurement management. No other costs are directly recorded against
procurement management.

 

5.       The total number of suppliers (contracted or not) that received a
payment for Goods or services.

 

[3]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor...

  

6.            The total number of contracts held by the council as at the
31st March 2017.

7.            The total number of contract managers named on the council
contract register as at 31 March 2017.

8.            Total Number of Contracts awarded by the Council.

9.            The total number of contracts that reached their termination
date and were renewed by extension without retendering.

10.          The % saving (comparing the new contracted price to the old
contracted price) in the top 5 valued (Total anticipated spend over the
life of the contract) contracted procurements undertaken by the council
awarded during the period 1st April 2016 to the 31st March 2017.

11.          The total value of Goods and Services spent with suppliers
who are defined as a Small and Medium Enterprise according to the DfTI
definition.

12.          The number of suppliers the spend with which adds up to 80%
of the total spend with Third Parties.

13.          The total number of contracts held by the council as at the
31st March 2017 with formalised and active contract management (Formalised
contract management is viewed as regular, recorded and communicated
processes for reviewing progress, issues, performance, outputs and
outcomes including remedial action linked to contract terms by a
responsible individual or individuals or teams that is active).

14.          Total number of contract awards by the council that have been
challenged by an unsuccessful tenderer.

15.          The total number of suppliers (contracted or not) that
received a payment for Goods or services.

16.          The total value of third party spend acquired from contracts
that were not exclusive to the council arranged with another council or
through participation in a contract provided through a Framework.

17.          The total value of contracts held by the council as at the
31st March 2017.

 

Information relating to council held contracts and council spend is
available in public domain. The information is available through the
following link:

 

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[4]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor...

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[5]https://www.nelincs.gov.uk/council-infor...

·         [6]https://www.yortender.co.uk/

 

This information is therefore exempt under Section 21 of the Freedom of
Information Act. 

 

If you believe that your request for information has not been handled in
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, you have the right to
request an internal review by the Council. Please be clear about which
elements of the Council’s response or handling of the request you are
unhappy with, and would like the Council to address during the internal
review process.  If following this you are still dissatisfied you may
contact the Office of the Information Commissioner. If you wish to request
an internal review, please contact me and I will make the necessary
arrangements.

 

Yours sincerely on behalf of North East Lincolnshire Council

 

Feedback Officer

 

 

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