Procurement ‘low risk £30k -£100k no tenders

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Dear City of York Council,

Please can you replicate this foi but also add the date and responsible staffer this time please, to include the entire financial year would be very helpful.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

If you can expedite for Citizen audit I would appreciate.

Yours faithfully,

Gwen Swinburn

foi@york.gov.uk, City of York Council

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Dear Ms Swinburn,
 
Freedom of Information
 
Please see below the response to your enquiry under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) received on 24 May 2018.
 
For the entire financial year please provide the following

 1. All records of all contracts £30 k and above that were issued on the
basis of three written quotes (as against ‘formal invite, as in your
report for £30-£100k alludes)

 

 2. Please provide a link to these contracts on the contracts register
 2. Please produce the policy and practice guidelines on what a ‘low risk’
contract is, and what system/person designates that a contract is ‘low
risk’ and authorities for sign off.
 2. In total how much was spent on contracts £30k and above which did not
go though the more rigorous steps for seemingly £30-£100k, which
includes evaluation of the bids ( quite shocking this isn’t done for
all contracts)
 2. As the Governance Risk and Assurance Group is key here, please provide
the job titles and department of the members of that group, together
with its terms of reference.

 

 6. The date

 

 7. The responsible member of staff.

 
This information is exempt under section 21 as it is considered to be
reasonably accessible to you.
 
Information relating to the individual contracts can be found on the
following link:
 
[1]https://procontract.due-north.com/Contra...
 
Information relating to policy, practice and the Governance Risk and
Assurance Group was answered in your previous request and can be found on
the following link.
 
[2]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
 
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review of how your enquiry was handled and responded to. This can be done
by contacting us through [3][City of York Council request email] stating your reason(s) why you
are dissatisfied. If you remain dissatisfied after receiving the review
response you
can contact the Information Commissioner, contact details below:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a
national rate number
Fax: 01625 524 510
Or email: [4][email address] (please include your telephone number)
 
Yours sincerely,
 
 
t: 01904 554556 | e: [5][email address]
 
City of York Council  |  Customer Complaints & Feedback Team, Customer &
Corporate Services
West Offices | Station Rise | York YO1 6GA
[6]www.york.gov.uk | [7]facebook.com/cityofyork | [8]@CityofYork
 
 
 
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Dear City of York Council,

Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
Please simply replicate the response you did last time, I am unable to navigate the system. It is too complex and also I cannot be confident the contract register is correct.

I am writing to request an internal review of City of York Council's handling of my FOI request 'Procurement ‘low risk £30k -£100k no tenders'.

[ GIVE DETAILS ABOUT YOUR COMPLAINT HERE ]

A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...

Yours faithfully,

Gwen Swinburn

foi@york.gov.uk, City of York Council

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Dear Ms Swinburn,
 
Please see below the outcome of the review into this Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) request.
 
The information is exempt from disclosure under Section 21 (information
accessible to the applicant by other means). We are not required to
release information if it is reasonably accessible to you in another way.
 
For points 1 and 2, I have used the original link provided on the contacts
register and then selected City of York Council from the ‘Organisations’
drop down menu and selected the dates you expressed an interest in under
‘contract start dates’. When the ‘update button’ was selected, the
relevant results were displayed on the right hand side.
 
For the remaining points the information is a repeat of the information
provided in response to your previous request and is therefore available
to you on the link provided.
 
It is therefore considered all the information requested is available
through the links provided and a person with an interest in the
information, is reasonably able to make the selections above to find the
required information. As you are known to have access to the internet and
to be able to complete searches for information, information is reasonably
accessible to you using the links provided.
 
Your review is therefore not upheld.
 
If you remain dissatisfied you can now contact the Information
Commissioner, contact details below:
Information Commissioner's Office
Wycliffe House Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Tel: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or 01625 545 745 if you prefer to use a
national rate number
Fax: 01625 524 510
Or email: [1][email address] (please include your telephone number)
 
Yours sincerely
 
 
t: 01904 554556 | e: [2][email address]
 
City of York Council  |  Customer Complaints & Feedback Team, Customer &
Corporate Services
West Offices | Station Rise | York YO1 6GA
[3]www.york.gov.uk | [4]facebook.com/cityofyork | [5]@CityofYork
 
 
 
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Gwen Swinburn left an annotation ()

15th August 2018

Case Reference Number FS50769503

Dear Ms Swinburn

Your ref: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/p...
Your information request to City of York Council

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