MIDAS Contract Documents

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Dear National Policing Improvement Agency,

I request a copy of the contract plus any appendices and indexes for the MIDAS system.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Brown

NPIA FOI Team,

Dear Mr Brown

Thank you for your recent request for information, about MIDAS Contract Documents, dated 12th June 2010.

Your request was received on 12th June 2010 and I am dealing with it under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

We have logged your request which is receiving our attention. Your request reference number is 47262.

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Dear Mr Brown,

Please find attached response to your FOI request.

I will be sending the informaion you've requested seperately, as the files sizes are quite large. You should receive a total of 9 files. If you do not receive any of the ZIP files can you please let me know.

Many Thanks

Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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    Midas Services Agreement SD6 Financial Model redactions 27 04 10.zip

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    Midas Framework Agreement SD1 Financial Model Redactions 28 04 10.zip

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    Midas Services Agreement SD2 Financial Model redactions 27 04 10.zip

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    Midas Services Agreement SD3 Financial Mode redactions 27 04 10.zip

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    Midas Services Agreement SD4 Financial Model redactions 27 04 10.zip

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    Midas Services Agreement SD5 Financial Model redactions 27 04 10.zip

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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Dear Mr Brown,

I've had to split three of the files into two as they were too large to send through, so there are now 12 file in total.

Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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NPIA FOI Team,

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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NPIA FOI Team,

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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Dear Andy,

It appears that "Contract 2b.zip" and "Contract 3a.zip" have not arrived. I'd appreciate if you could try resending these.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

NPIA FOI Team,

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Dear Mr Brown,

Sorry for the confusion, I've had to split them up again.

So four more files coming through.

Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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NPIA FOI Team,

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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NPIA FOI Team,

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Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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NPIA FOI Team,

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Dear Mr Brown,

Hopefully this is the last one, please let me know if you find anything missing.

Thanks

Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587

Web www.npia.police.uk

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Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Please can I request an internal review of these redactions. The arguments you have used are very similar to those considered and rejected by the information commissioner in his previous decision against you over the IDENT1 contract (http://www.ico.gov.uk/upload/documents/d...). For example you continue to use a Section 43(2) exemption in regards Service Levels despite this argument specifically being rejected in para 149 of FS50125350.

Particularly I do not accept your assertion that pricing information for a bespoke contract is likely to disclose useful information to competitors. Again para 152 of FS50125350 sets an expectation of you being able to cite specific rather than general issues of commercial compromise.

In addition, your redactions seem to have been overly enthusiastic, in that almost all values have been removed from the document regardless of why they were there, this has also led to the reader being unable to tell which cells were redacted and which simply not used.

For any values that you do continue to redact, please consider not redacting the entire value (e.g. £53582 could be redacted as £5xxxx), or replacing it with a range within which they fall to give an idea of the scale of the costs, in a similar way to how salary information for senior staff is disclosed. Even if precise numbers would prejudice commercial interests, the general range would not.

Finally because of the method you have chosen to redact the information (i.e. deletion from the original file) it is impossible to tell the extent of the redactions, and I would argue that understanding this (e.g. by black boxes or similar) would aid the public is assessing your performance. Please could you review this practice alongside the substantive point.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Please could you acknowledge my request for an internal review?

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

Dear National Policing Improvement Agency,

It has been over four weeks since I requested my Internal Review and I am yet to even receive an acknowledgement. Please could you let me know when I should expect a reply.

Yours faithfully,

Alex Brown

NPIA FOI Team,

Dear Mr Brown,

Firstly apologies for the dealy in gettting back to you.

I can acknowledge that we have received this request for an Internal Review.

I have been in contact with the Head of Unit, Anne Taylor, who deals with these reviews, and I understand that this is now being acted on as a matter of urgency. You should receive an initial reply by the end of next week (w/e 10th September 2010).

Again apologies for the delay in dealing with this internal review and thank you for you patience in this matter.

Regard,

Andy Woodgate
IKS Advisor
National Policing Improvement Agency

Telephone: +44 (0)20 8358 5587
Web www.npia.police.uk

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation ()

I guess you were aware of my similar request for the IDENT1 contract, since your internal review request has some rather familiar looking bits :-) (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/id...)

As I said in an annotation there, I've received a decision notice ordering release. Since it might be useful with your internal review request, I've scanned a copy and put it online at http://urchin.earth.li/~ganesh/temp/FS50... - sorry about the file size and the inverted colours on the first page (which happened when I removed my own address). I'll remove that copy when the ICO publishes the decision notice themselves.

Dear NPIA FOI Team,

I understand via What Do They Know that you have received a decision notice on case FS50280571 which shares considerable similarities with the exemptions under consideration in this request (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/id...). I trust that you will be taking this notice into consideration during the review. Whilst I have not seen the content of the decision notice I understand it has found against the Agency in regards the exemptions relied upon in this case.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

Hopewell Amanda,

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Dear Amanda,

You are correct in the summary of the issues I have raised. I look forward to receiving the results of your review in the near future.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

NPIA FOI Team,

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Dear Mr. Brown,

Please find attached the NPIA's response to your request for internal
review.

Regards,

NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

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    NOT L001 2279019 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Framework Services Cogent Alternative ItSFT Model 1 SD123456 Consolidation redacted.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279027 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Framework Cogent SD1 Devices v2 Final Redacted.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279028 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Services Cogent SD2 Accreditation v2 Final Redacted.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279036 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Services Cogent SD3 Accreditation v2 Final REDACTED.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279039 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Services Cogent SD4 Comms v2 Final REDACTED.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279040 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Services Cogent SD5 Back end v2 Final REDACTED.pdf

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    NOT L001 2279041 v1 Appendix to Schedule 7 4 Services Cogent SD6 Design Assurance v2 Final REDACTED.pdf

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Dear Mr Brown,

Please find attached the documents to be disclosed.

Regards,

NPIA FOI TEAM
National Policing Improvement Agency
Email: [NPIA request email]
Website: www.npia.police.uk

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Dear NPIA FOI Team,

Thank you very much for sending through these documents.

Yours sincerely,

Alex Brown

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Dear Mr Brown,

Please find attached the revised documents as agreed.

Regards,

Vicky Smith

Knowledge and Information Management Services Assistant
National Policing Improvement Agency

Email: [2][NPIA request email]
Website: [3]www.npia.police.uk

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Ganesh Sittampalam left an annotation ()

The ICO has now ruled on this request: http://www.ico.gov.uk/~/media/documents/...