Date of Request
12/09/24
Request
Dear FOI Team,
Please could you confirm if you can provide the following information Free of Charge or if a fee will be applicable – If a fee is applicable, please confirm the price (before providing any information)?
I would be most grateful if you would provide me, under the Freedom of Information Act, details in respect to the contract below.
Confidential Waste Destruction Contract
The details I require are:
- Has confidential waste been procured via tender or framework or another means, oif other means please confirm how you procured your confidential waste?
- If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please?
- Actual contract values of each framework/contract (& any sub lots)
- Start date & duration of contract
- Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension, along with the final possible contract end date?
- Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
- Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
- Do you have a generic email address for your procurement department, for example procurement@organisation.com, if so could you confirm this?
Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please? - Who is the current supplier?
- If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste/Cleaning Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation? E.g., which company’s staff actually collect your confidential waste?
Thank you for your help.
Yours sincerely
Response
Hi
We thank you for your request for information, which has been received by Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service (the Service) and considered under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000. Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in responding to your request.
The Service can confirm that the information that you have requested is held as below:
- Has confidential waste been procured via tender or framework or another means, oif other means please confirm how you procured your confidential waste?
As a Service we do not have a confidential waste contract. At sites where we do have confidential waste collection this is done under our lease agreements with the West Mercia OPCC. Other sites have shredding facilities that are utilised to destroy documents. On occasion we have had a bulk removal of documents from our archives where companies have collected the waste but this is done on an ad hoc basis.
- If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please? N/A
- Actual contract values of each framework/contract (& any sub lots) N/A
- Start date & duration of contract N/A
- Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension, along with the final possible contract end date? N/A
- Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed? N/A
- Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please? We do not provide staff contact details.
- Do you have a generic email address for your procurement department, for example procurement@organisation.com, if so could you confirm this? No
- Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please? We do not provide staff contact details.
- Who is the current supplier? N/A
- If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste/Cleaning Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation? E.g., which company’s staff actually collect your confidential waste N/A
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Kind regards,
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