Procurement
Dear Powys County Council,
I write to submit an FOI on procurement and would be grateful if you could respond to the following:
1. What was the latest price paid per ream (500 sheets) of standard white copier paper (80 gsm or equivalent)?
2. If the answer to question 1 is not representative of a usual price paid, what is the average price paid per ream of copier paper during financial year 2016/17 and 17/18?
3. How many reams of copy paper were purchased during the 2016/17 and 2017/18 financial years?
4. How many times did your organisation use the National Procurement Service in the last 3 financial years?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Yours faithfully,
Bleddyn ap Dafydd
Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Acting Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
Mark Evans
Spa Road East
Llandrindod Wells
Powys LD1 5LG
If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
Tel / Ffôn: 01597 82 7543
Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][email address]
Our ref / Ein cyf: F2018-1131
Date / Dyddiad: 23/10/18
Request Accepted
FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000
Reference No: F2018/1131
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
23/10/2018, in which you requested details of the following:
Copier Paper
The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.
Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.
There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.
Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.
The due date for responding to this request for information is 20/11/2018.
Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.
Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Cayetano
Information Compliance Officer
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Dear Bleddyn ap Dafydd,
Following your request below for information regarding the Powys Council’s
Usage of Copier Paper, I would like to apologise on behalf of the team for
the delay.
This information is held with our supplier and while we have been
requesting the data, we have just been informed that the gentleman who
deals with such requests at the supplier’s company is on annual leave
until 26/11/2018.
Once he has returned to work and provided us with the data we will
endeavour to get your request released to as soon as possible.
I apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Kind Regards
Flo Buckle
Information Compliance Officer
From: Information Compliance (CSP - Generic)
Sent: 23 October 2018 13:31
To: [FOI #528070 email]
Subject: Acknowledgement - F2018-1131 Copier Paper
Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Acting Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
Mark Evans
Spa Road East
Llandrindod Wells
Powys LD1 5LG
If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
Tel / Ffôn: 01597 82 7543
Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][email address]
Our ref / Ein cyf: F2018-1131
Date / Dyddiad: 23/10/18
Request Accepted
FREEDOM of INFORMATION ACT 2000
Reference No: F2018/1131
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your request for information, received at this office on
23/10/2018, in which you requested details of the following:
Copier Paper
The above is a summary of your request. The full details of the
information sought is provided to the officer to whom the request is
tasked.
Your request will now be considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days as defined by the Act, subject
to the information not being exempt or containing a reference to a third
party. In some circumstances Powys County Council may be unable to achieve
this deadline. If this is likely you will be informed and given a revised
time-scale at the earliest opportunity.
There may be a fee payable for the retrieval, collation and provision of
the information you request. If this is the case you will be informed and
the 20 working day timescale will be suspended until we receive payment
from you. If you choose not to make a payment then your request will
remain unanswered.
Some requests may also require either full or partial transference to
another public authority in order to answer your query in the fullest
possible way. Again, you will be informed if this is the case.
The due date for responding to this request for information is 20/11/2018.
Should you need to discuss this further please contact the Information
Compliance Team on 01597 827543.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.
Yours sincerely,
Elizabeth Cayetano
Information Compliance Officer
References
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1. mailto:[email address]
Cyfarwyddwr Strategol: Rheoli Gwybodaeth/
Adnoddau
Information Compliance
Acting Director: Resources
Neuadd Y Sir / County Hall
Mark Evans
Spa Road East
Llandrindod Wells
Powys LD1 5LG
If calling please ask for / Os yn galw
gofynnwch am
Tel / Ffôn: 01597 82 7543
Email/Llythyru electronig:
[1][email address]
Our ref / Ein cyf: F2018-1131
Date / Dyddiad: 28/11/2018
Reference No: F2018-1131
Dear Sir/Madam
Thank you for your request for information dated 23/10/2018 concerning
Copier Paper
This is to inform you that your request has been considered and I can
provide the following response:
The Request:
I write to submit an FOI on procurement and would be grateful if you could
respond to the following:
1. What was the latest price paid per ream (500 sheets) of standard white
copier paper (80 gsm or equivalent)?
£1.87
2. If the answer to question 1 is not representative of a usual price
paid, what is the average price paid per ream of copier paper during
financial year 2016/17 and 17/18?
As above
3. How many reams of copy paper were purchased during the 2016/17 and
2017/18 financial years?
Purchase of paper from our contracted supplier for
2016-2017 is 10,967 reams.
2017-2018 is 11,046 reams
This covers reams of all types, colours, and sizes of paper, but not that
purchased by Schools. This does not take into account opening and closing
stock levels.
4. How many times did your organisation use the National Procurement
Service in the last 3 financial years?
All purchases of paper are undertaken through the NPS framework supplier
We regret the delay you have experienced with this request. We acknowledge
that Powys County Council has failed in its obligation under the Freedom
of Information Act 2000, to provide you with a response to your request
within the statutory timescale of 20 working days. Please accept our
apologies for this and for any inconvenience this may have caused.
We believe that this request is now complete and shall be closed
immediately. Should any further information be requested regarding this
topic, a separate request will need to be submitted.
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in
Powys County Council.
Yours sincerely,
Information Compliance Team
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