Dear Benjamin Barnes

Thank you for your correspondence which was received by North Ayrshire
Council, requesting information.

North Ayrshire Council acknowledges receipt of your request and will
respond to you within 20 working days as required by the Freedom of
Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (please note day 1 of your request is the
first working day after receipt of your request). We will contact you if
we require any further information or clarification from you.

If your request is regarding information which is considered environmental
information the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004
(EISR) will also apply. Both EISR and FOISA provide similar rights to
access information and place requirements on the Council to consider
requests and to provide information.

The Council will now consider your request and identify any relevant
records held. Please note, should your request relate to environmental
information in terms of Section 7 of the Regulations (complex or
voluminous requests), the Council may extend the timescale to 40 working
days. We will write to you as soon as possible after receipt of your
request to advise if this is the case.

The information supplied in your request will only be accessed by North
Ayrshire Council staff and will be retained for the purposes of processing
your request for information and related purposes and for statistical and
audit purposes. The information will be held by North Ayrshire Council in
accordance with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 2018.

Yours sincerely

FOI Co-ordinator

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Dear Benjamin Barnes,

Thank you for your request for information dated 10th July 2019 which was
received by North Ayrshire Council on 10th July 2019. The Council has
considered your request and we require further information before we can
continue. Please can you provide:

I wanted to ask if the definition of consultancy in this case is
consultancy as commonly understood in civil engineering (ie work carried
out by consultants) or the much narrower definition of consultancy in
terms of the Council's description shown at the attached link
http://naconnects.north-ayrshire.gov.uk/...
in which for construction and infrastructure, only feasibility, scoping
and benefit reviews are considered to be consultancy work?

Until we receive the above, we will consider the information request to be
suspended and the statutory timescale to respond will re-commence once in
receipt of the information.

Your right to seek a review. Should you be dissatisfied with the way North
Ayrshire Council is handling your request you have the right to request a
review.

Should you wish to do this, you should explain why you wish a review to be
carried out and should be made within 40 working days of receipt of this
response. We will then reply within 20 working days of receipt and
employees not involved in your original request will undertake the review.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review you then have the
right to make a formal complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner
at http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal.

Any request for a review should be made in writing to:

FOI / EIR Manager
Data Service
Cunninghame House
Irvine
Ayrshire
KA12 8EE

Email : [email address]

The supply of documents under the terms of the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 does not give the applicant or whoever receives the
information any right to re-use it in such a way that might infringe the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This includes making multiple
copies, publishing or otherwise distributing the information to other
individuals and the public.

While efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of this information,
its accuracy is not warranted. In particular, the Council accepts no
liability for onward sale or transfer of this information to any third
party and for any reliance placed on such information by you or by a third
party.

Yours sincerely

Samantha Alexander

Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

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without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly,
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(including in negligence) for the consequences for any person
acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the
receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation.

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immediately by telephone. Please also destroy and delete the message
from your computer.

Any form of unauthorised reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure,
modification, distribution and/or publication of any part of this e-mail
message (or attachments transmitted with it) by the addressee(s) is
strictly prohibited.

Please be advised that North Ayrshire Council's incoming and outgoing
e-mail is subject to regular monitoring.
North Ayrshire Council plan to decommission all gcsx email in the very near future, but be assured as members of the UK Governments' Secure Blueprint (SEB) all emails will remain secure.

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Dear Mr Barnes

Thank you for your request for information dated 10 July 2019 which was
received by North Ayrshire Council on 10 July 2019.

We have now completed our research for the information and the responses
to your questions are contained in the attached spreadsheet. 

Your right to seek a review.

Should you be dissatisfied with the way in which North Ayrshire Council
has dealt with your request you have the right to ask us to review it.

You should explain why you wish a review to be carried out and should be
made within 40 working days of receipt of this response. We will then
reply within 20 working days of receipt and employees not involved in your
original request will undertake the review. If you are not satisfied with
the result of the review you then have the right to make a formal
complaint to the Scottish Information Commissioner at
http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/Appeal

Any request for a review should be made in writing in the first instance
to:

FOI /EIR Manager
Data Service
Cunninghame House
Irvine
Ayrshire
KA12 8EE

Email : [email address]

The supply of documents under the terms of the Freedom of Information
(Scotland) Act 2002 does not give the applicant or whoever receives the
information any right to re-use it in such a way that might infringe the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This includes making multiple
copies, publishing or otherwise distributing the information to other
individuals and the public.

While efforts have been made to ensure the accuracy of this information,
its accuracy is not warranted. In particular, the Council accepts no
liability for onward sale or transfer of this information to any third
party and for any reliance placed on such information by you or by a third
party.

Yours sincerely

Judith McGibney
Freedom of Information Co-ordinator

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This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is
addressed and is not intended to be relied upon by any person
without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly,
North Ayrshire Council disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability
(including in negligence) for the consequences for any person
acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the
receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation.

If you have received this e-mail message in error, please notify us
immediately by telephone. Please also destroy and delete the message
from your computer.

Any form of unauthorised reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure,
modification, distribution and/or publication of any part of this e-mail
message (or attachments transmitted with it) by the addressee(s) is
strictly prohibited.

Please be advised that North Ayrshire Council's incoming and outgoing
e-mail is subject to regular monitoring.
North Ayrshire Council plan to decommission all gcsx email in the very near future, but be assured as members of the UK Governments' Secure Blueprint (SEB) all emails will remain secure.

"This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses and malicious content."