Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

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Dear Thomas Richards

Freedom of information request - FOI/8784

Subject: FOI - Reconnected Croydon Bid documents

Your request is being considered and you will receive a response within
the statutory timescale of 20 working days, subject to the application of
any exemptions. Where consideration is being given to exemptions the 20
working day timescale may be extended to a period considered reasonable
depending on the nature and circumstances of your request. In such cases
you will be notified and, where possible, a revised time-scale will be
indicated. In all cases we shall attempt to deal with your request at the
earliest opportunity.

If we are unable to provide you with the information requested we will
notify you of this together with the reason(s) why, and details of how you
may appeal.

Please note that the directorate team may contact you for further
information where we believe that the request is not significantly clear
for us to respond fully. 

Kind Regard

Information Management Team

Croydon Digital Services

Assistant Chief Executive Directorate

7th Floor, Zone B

Bernard Weatherill House

8 Mint Walk

Croydon CR0 1EA

Dear Thomas Richards, 

We apologies for the delay in your response. I have gone back to the
service requesting and update on the request and have highlighted it as
overdue. We aim to get a response out to you as soon as possible. 

Once again we apologies for the delay and thank you for your patience. 

Kind regards, 
Information Management Team. 

Dear [email address],

Please can you reply as the 20 working day deadline has been exceeded.

Yours sincerely,

Thomas Richards

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Information Team Croydon
Digital Services
Assistant Chief Executive Directorate
Bernard Wetherill House
7th Floor, Zone B
Croydon
CR0 1EA

Contact: Information Team
[Croydon Borough Council request email]

Dear Thomas Richards

Request FOI/8784

Freedom of Information Request

Your request has been considered under the provisions of the Freedom of
Information Act. Please accept our apologies for the delay in responding
to you. Specifically, you have requested the following information:

“Please publish the bid documents for Reconnected Croydon that led to
provisional funding of £18.5m being awarded to the Council for 6
projects”.

Please find the requested document attached. We have redacted some mobile
phone numbers from this document as this would be disclosing personal data
to you, withholding of personal data as defined by the General Data
Protection Regulations 2018, falls within the exemption in Section 40 (2)
(a) (i) (Personal Information) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. 
This aspect of your request is therefore exempt from disclosure by virtue
of Section 40 (2) (a) (i) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

It is important to remember that when information is released under the
Freedom of Information Act 2000, it is considered released to the wider
public. Any such disclosure of personal information would not be compliant
with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018.

We have also redacted some information that the Council considers to be
commercially sensitive and covered by the exemption provided in Section 43
of Freedom of Information Act. This exemption applies to information which
if disclosed would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial
interests of any person, including the Council.

In deciding whether to apply this exemption the Council is expected to
balance the public interest test in withholding the information against
the public interest in disclosing the information. The information is
considered, by the Council, to be commercially sensitive as its disclosure
would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of the of
Council, as it is considered that if the information is disclosed to you
it could potentially weaken the Council ability to obtain value for money
in respect of any future purchases of this type.

The Council publishes Access to Information requests and responses on its
online Disclosure Log. (Any request included within this log will be
anonymised appropriately)

To view the Council’s Disclosure Log, please visit our website available
here:

[1]The Freedom of Information (FOI) Act | Croydon Council
(disclosure-log.co.uk)

If you are dissatisfied with the way the Council has handled your request
under the Freedom of Information Act you may ask for an internal review. 
This should be submitted to us within 40 working days of this response. 
You can do this by outlining the details of your complaint by:

Email:        [Croydon Borough Council request email]

Writing:     Information Team

London Borough of Croydon
Bernard Weatherill House
3^rd Floor - Zone E
8 Mint Walk
Croydon CR0 1EA

Any requests received after the 40 working day time limit will be
considered only at the discretion of the council.

If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have
the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a
decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire   SK9 5AF

Yours sincerely 

Croydon Council

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