Supervised Contact Enquiry

The request was successful.

Dear Vale of Glamorgan Council,

1. Do you currently have your own "In House" Service, preferred
suppliers list or master vendor contract in place for your Supervised Contact Service for children in care?

2. If you have a contract in place, when will this be due for
renewal and what is your process for announcing, advertising and
applying for this opportunity?

3. If you have your own "In House" Service, do you ever spot
purchase to support this service and would the service ever be put
out for tender?

4. Do you have any intention to review the existing provisions in place for your Supervised Contact Service?

5. What is the council's annual spend on outsourced agencies for
supervised contact for 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017?

5. What is the name and contact details for the procurement and
placement officer who is responsible for this service?

Yours faithfully,

Jessica Allen

FOI Unit, Vale of Glamorgan Council

Dear Jessica Allen

Thank you for your request for information.

Your reference is RFI 17 5657

I hope to respond to you within the statutory timescale of twenty working days.

Kind regards

Information Governance Officer / Swyddog Rheolaeth Gwybodaeth
Democratic Services / Gwasanaethau Democrataidd
Vale of Glamorgan Council / Cyngor Bro Morgannwg
tel / ffôn: 01446 700111

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FOI Unit, Vale of Glamorgan Council

RFI 17 5657

Dear Jessica Allen

 

Thank you for your Freedom of Information Act 2000 request asking the
questions below and the information held follows.

1. Do you currently have your own "In House" Service, preferred suppliers
list or master vendor contract in place for your Supervised Contact
Service for children in care?

Contract with provider.

2. If you have a contract in place, when will this be due for renewal and
what is your process for announcing, advertising and applying for this
opportunity?

Currently in place until  April 2018.

3. If you have your own "In House" Service, do you ever spot purchase to
support this service and would the service ever be put out for tender?

N/A

4. Do you have any intention to review the existing provisions in place
for your Supervised Contact Service?

Service specification being prepared for tendering process in Q4.

5. What is the council's annual spend on outsourced agencies for
supervised contact for 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017?

*

6. What is the name and contact details for the procurement and placement
officer who is responsible for this service?

Karen Conway / Amber Condy  / Gaynor Jones, Operational Managers

Please note that with regard to the asterisked qurestion this information
has not been provided and in accordance with Section 43 [2] Commercial
Interests.

 

This exemption applies because the fees agreed are of a commercially
sensitive nature.

 

Under the Act we must also consider if it is in the public interest to
disclose the information relating to your request.  In this case we
consider that the public interest in withholding the information outweighs
the public interest in disclosing it for the reasons explained below:-

 

Our decision is consistent with the Information Commissioner’s guidance
regarding, the Information Tribunal in Department of Health v Information
Commissioner

which involved a request for details of the amounts paid by the Department
of Health to a  contractor, found that “ pricing figures and structure”
should be withheld as it could provide information that would allow
competitors to undercut the contractor.

 

I have considered your request and having liaised with the relevant
department, been advised that the following information is held:-

 

I hope that this information is of assistance but if you are dissatisfied
with this response and would like to have it reviewed, please contact the
Council’s Monitoring Officer at the Civic Offices, Holton Road, Barry CF63
4RU.  For Freedom of Information complaints, the ICO recommend that you do
this as soon as possible and within two months of receiving the
authority’s final response and for Environmental Information Regulation
complaints you should make your complaint within 40 working days. Further
information is available at 
[1]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...

 

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at [2]https://ico.org.uk/

 

Kind regards

 

 

Information Governance Officer / Swyddog Rheolaeth Gwybodaeth

Democratic Services / Gwasanaethau Democrataidd

Vale of Glamorgan Council / Cyngor Bro Morgannwg

tel / ffôn: 01446 700111

 

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