Dear Mr Hirst

Thank you for your request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000, received by FOI@jisc on 22 January. We will respond to your request as soon as possible and no later than 20 working days as required by the Act.

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Kathryn Mills
Helpdesk Team
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From: Tony Hirst[SMTP:[email address]]
Sent: 22 January 2013 00:46:08
To: [email address]
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Funded bids awarded as part of Stage 2 of the JISC Grant Funding call 8/11
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Dear Joint Information Systems Committee,

Please may I have a copy of:

1) all bid documents relating to bids that were funded under stage
2, Implementation, of the JISC Grant Funding call 8/11 - "Course
Data" - excluding information identified as excludable from FOI
requests by the bidding parties insofar as those exclusions are
legitimate.

2) copies of any conditions associated with funding that diverge
from the bid documents

3) i) statements relating to the actual amount of funding awarded
arising from the call and ii) where available, but not prejudicial
to request 3(i), breakdowns of how that funding was to be further
disbursed by awardees, eg with respect to third party contractors.

Yours faithfully,

Tony Hirst

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Dear Mr Hirst

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 –
F2013/684

This is the second of two emails in response to your FOI request.

Yours sincerely

Alison Madge

Alison Madge

Information Rights Manager

Higher Education Funding Council for England

Northavon House, Coldharbour Lane

Bristol, BS16 1QD

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Dear Mr Hirst,

Request for information under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 –
F2013/684

Thank you for your request for information about the funded bids awarded
as part of stage 2 of the JISC Grant Funding call 8/11. On the 1 December
2012 JISC became Jisc, a registered charity and was established as a
company making the organisation a separate legal entity. Therefore, your
request has been passed to the Higher Education Funding Council for
England (HEFCE) to respond to.

Under section 1(1) of the FOIA you are usually entitled to be told whether
we hold any information that falls within the scope of your request and,
if we do, to have that information provided to you except where it is
covered by an exemption.

A total of 63 grants were awarded from Stage 2 of Grant Funding Call 8/11
and copies of the relevant bids are provided. Because of our IT
restrictions on sending large files by email we have split the bid
documents into two zip files. The first is attached, and the second will
follow in a separate email. The attached spreadsheet contains details of
funds awarded to each institution. All were awarded funding without
additional conditions, apart from the following:

University of Cambridge: funded on condition that the project focuses on
postgraduate and distance learning courses.

Staffordshire University: funded on condition of (i) appointment of a
project manager and (ii) clarification of feed licence.

University of Essex: funded on condition of reassurance on mitigation of
risks for resource issues.

Bishop Burton College: funded on condition of clarification on work
packages and creation of feed.

We do not collate information on how grant funding is further disbursed by
awardees and therefore cannot provide this information.

Please accept my apologies for the delay in sending our response to you. I
am attaching an explanation of our standard approach to copyright as well
as details of our appeals process should you feel dissatisfied with our
response.

Yours sincerely
Alison Madge

Alison Madge

Information Rights Manager

Higher Education Funding Council for England

Northavon House, Coldharbour Lane

Bristol, BS16 1QD

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From: Tony Hirst[SMTP:[email address]]
Sent: 22 January 2013 00:46:08
To: [email address]
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Funded bids awarded as part of
Stage 2 of the JISC Grant Funding call 8/11
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     Dear Joint Information Systems Committee,
    
     Please may I have a copy of:
    
     1) all bid documents relating to bids that were funded under stage
     2, Implementation, of the JISC Grant Funding call 8/11 - "Course
     Data" - excluding information identified as excludable from FOI
     requests by the bidding parties insofar as those exclusions are
     legitimate.
    
     2) copies of any conditions associated with funding that diverge
     from the bid documents
    
     3) i) statements relating to the actual amount of funding awarded
     arising from the call and ii) where available, but not prejudicial
     to request 3(i), breakdowns of how that funding was to be further
     disbursed by awardees, eg with respect to third party contractors.
    
     Yours faithfully,
    
     Tony Hirst
    
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     Please use this email address for all replies to this request:
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