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The Blandford School
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Dear Harry,
Please find our response below :

1. What services are included in the contract? (e.g. printing vs scanning etc) 2. Which supplier is delivering them? (If in-house, please confirm or if multiple provider please identify them) 3. How many contracts does this entail and what's the award value for each?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

4. When do these contracts expire and do they have any extensions?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

5. What is the annual volumetric data (split by Annual Mono and Annual Colour print)?
2,258,517 Mono, 751,364 Colour

6. What is the total number of devices supplied?
20

7. What Managed Print Service software solution do you use?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

8. How many Mono MFDs and Colour MFDs do you have?
20 all colour

9. What document management solution do you use?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

10. What High Volume printing devices do you use?
kyocera taskalfa 8353ci

11. Were any framework agreements used to procure the goods/services? If so, which ones?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

12. What department is managing the contract and who's the decision-maker?
Please note that names cannot be provided in this case, all queries should be submitted via the Office email account. The Blandford School considers this information exempt under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information 3 Act 2000 as it relates to the personal information of The Blandford School employees. The Blandford School employees are not of a sufficient senior level where there is reasonable expectation that their name would be released into the public domain. We are not obliged, under Section 40(2) of the Act, to provide information that is the personal information of another person if releasing would contravene any of the principles set out in article 5 of the GDPR. In this instance we believe that the release of this information would contravene the first principle (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) and therefore Section 40(2) is engaged.

13. How many Adobe Acrobat (standard, professional and reader) licenses do you have?
1300 Creative Cloud Enterprise

14. What is the annual cost?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

15. When is the renewal date?
The information you have requested is commercially sensitive and is therefore exempt from release under Section 43 of the Freedom of Information Act.
Section 43 exempts information, which if disclosed, would be likely to prejudice the commercial interests of any person. It protects not only the commercial interests of third parties but also the commercial interests of the School. It is intended to protect the ability of a public authority to obtain goods or services on the best possible commercial terms and to protect the legitimate commercial interests of its suppliers. The information you seek falls into this category. Section 43 - Commercial interests | ICO

If you wish to complain about this response you may do so by writing to The Head Teacher, Blandford School, Milldown RD, Blandford Forum, DT11 7SQ.
You also have the right to appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office by telephoning 0303 123 1113.”

16. Who is responsible for the contract?
Please note that names cannot be provided in this case. The Blandford School considers this information exempt under Section 40(2) of the Freedom of Information 3 Act 2000 as it relates to the personal information of The Blandford School employees. The Blandford School employees are not of a sufficient senior level where there is reasonable expectation that their name would be released into the public domain. We are not obliged, under Section 40(2) of the Act, to provide information that is the personal information of another person if releasing would contravene any of the principles set out in article 5 of the GDPR. In this instance we believe that the release of this information would contravene the first principle (lawfulness, fairness and transparency) and therefore Section 40(2) is engaged.

17. Do you use any other PDF editing tools?
No

Regards

The Blandford School

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