Professional Services Procurement Spend

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Dear Colchester Borough Council,

I am writing to ask that you please provide me with the spend for your Professional Services procurement at the Authority, by which I mean the procurement of projects and consultancy through Statement of Work excluding temporary agency staff.

• What have you spent on Professional Services over the last 12 months?
• What did the authority spend on professional Services Between April 2019 and March 2020?
• Between April 2019 and March 2020, which categories had the highest level of spend throughout that period?
• Has the authority planned any large construction-based projects over the next two years?
• If you have got construction projects planned, please could you provide project details, budget and timeframes?
• What is the Councils current process to engage with professional service providers? Please could you provide details of the process and name third parties if they are being used.

Yours faithfully,

Daniel Smith

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Alison Shaw, Colchester Borough Council

Dear Daniel Smith

Thank you for contacting Colchester Borough Council with your Freedom of
Information request regarding:14

The Officer managing your Freedom of Information (FOI) request requires
some clarification, as below. Please send this information to
[Colchester Borough Council request email] and the Officer will review the additional
information provided and respond to you accordingly.

I expect that the information that you are seeking is already available
through the Council's publication scheme Datashare on
www.colchester.gov.uk in the Council Spending section. If there are still
unanswered questions, I would ask that you provide more clarity about how
you define Professional Services.

Kind regards
Customer Information, Colchester Borough Council, [Colchester Borough Council request email]

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