Kirklees Family Intervention Project
Geoff made this Freedom of Information request to Kirklees Borough Council This request has been closed to new correspondence. Contact us if you think it should be reopened.
Dear Kirklees Borough Council,
It has very recently come to my attention that you have put out to tender the Kirklees Family Intervention Project.
It has come to mt attention from your have taken the contract away from 'Action for Children' who have held the contract for 7 years and instead given the new contract to DISC.
Could you please publish the following under FOI:-
1. How many organisation made bids for the contract along with the value of the bids and the names of the organisations.
2. When and for how long the new contract is to run.
3. What criteria was used to award the contract
4. What steps were taken to insure that the bidding organisations were operating within the law, including charity law
Yours faithfully,
Geoff
ID 7736
Dear Geoff
Thank you for your request for information regarding the above.
Guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office sets out the
requirements for a request to be valid and says that a request must ‘state
the name of the applicant and an address for correspondence’ (Section 8(1)
of the Freedom of Information Act).
The Guidance is available from:
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In order for your request to comply with this requirement, I would be
grateful if you could provide your full name.
When we receive your name, we will deal with your request.
Regards
Information Access Team
Legal, Governance & Monitoring
Email: [2][email address]
Telephone: 01484 221744
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Dear Jenny Cartwright,
In response to your request for my full name I would like to draw your attention from the guidance that the FOI request does NOT fall under:-
"•
a request is being made by the applicant for his/her own personal data and so would be exempt under secti
on 40(1) of the FOIA (and would comprise a subject access request under the Data Protection Act 1998)"
In addition I would draw your attention to the following guidance:-
"Therefore, title and/or first name with surname satisfies the requirement for provision of a real
name,"
Yours sincerely,
Mr Geoff Smith
FoI ID: 7736
I confirm receipt of your FoI request and that I am looking into this.
I will respond to you in due course.
Regards
Information Access Team
Kirklees Council
Legal, Governance & Monitoring
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Telephone: 01484 221000
Fax: 01484 221755
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Dear Mr Smith
I refer to your recent enquiry relating to the above which has been dealt
with under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.
Please accept my apologies for the delay in replying.
Please find below the Council’s response to the questions you raised:
1. How many organisation made bids for the contract along with the value
of the bids and the names of the organisations.
7
Action for Children, Barnados, Calico, CRI, DISC, Foundation, Home Group
The values of the bids ranged from approximately £620,000-£650,000
2. When and for how long the new contract is to run.
1^st November 2013- 31^st October 2016 (with an option to extend for a
further 2 years)
3. What criteria was used to award the contract
Technical, quality and price
4. What steps were taken to insure that the bidding organisations were
operating within the law, including charity law
The contract was tendered in accordance with EU procurement rules
I would advise you that the tender results for this one were also
published on YOR tender and can be found by clicking on the link
[1]www.yortender.co.uk
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Yours sincerely
Information Access Team
Legal & Governance
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