PO Box 165
Liverpool
L69 3JD
www.gov.uk/dbs
Nicola Pomroy
FOI 2344 12/07/2023
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Dear Ms Pomroy,
Thank you for your Freedom of Information (FOI) request received on the 5th of July 2023.
Your request has been handled under the FOI Act 2000.
Your request for information was as follows:
Please can you provide me with information concerning the maintenance of your corporate
estate i.e. operational buildings, land and any other property (e.g. investment) and
schools, if they are within your jurisdiction. Not any social housing/dwellings.
Q1. What type of maintenance management model does your organisation use? E.g.
Managed supply-chain, single hard-fm & soft-fm contractor, internal workforce, principal
contractor etc.
Q2. Can you provide a list of the approved contractors used?
Q3. What are the total values of contracts granted?
Q4. When do these contracts expire?
Q5. What services are provided in each contract?
Q6. What procurement method was used? E.g. Open ITT, Framework if so, which one?
Response
The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment
decisions each year by processing and issuing DBS checks for England, Wales, the
Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man. DBS also maintains the adults' and children's Barred
Lists and makes considered safeguarding decisions as to whether an individual should be
included on one or both lists and barred from engaging in regulated activity.
1. Single hard-FM & soft FM contractor.
2. Mitie.
3. DBS call off from the wider Home Office Property Group (HOPG) contract with
Mitie, DBS are not privy to the total contract value. You could contact the HOPG for
clarity.
4. 31st October 2023.
5. Various hard & soft FM agreed via a service wheel.
6. Framework reference – RM1056 (CCS FM Services Framework).
Please note, the information provided is in response to this specific request and should not
be compared with any other information previously released
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keeping with the spirit and effect of the FOI Act and the government’s Transparency
Agenda, this letter and the information disclosed to you may be placed on GOV.UK,
together with any related information that will provide a key to its wider context. No
information identifying you will be placed on the GOV.UK website.
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F www.ico.org.uk. Yours sincerely
DBS FOI Team
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