NFRS 2024 09 - Office supplies

You asked for

Please can you respond to the following request for Information.

The details I require are:

1. Spend on Office supplies and associated products for the below financial years.
   1. 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2023
   2. 1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
2. Start date & duration of Contract?
3. Is there an extension clause in the contract and, if so, the duration of the extension?
4. Has a decision been made yet on whether the contract is to be either extended or renewed?
5. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for the contract?
6. Name of Incumbent Supplier?
7. How long have you traded with them?
8. If you publish your register of contracts and purchasing, can you please provide a website link.
9. In addition, can you confirm if you have a contract in place for Tail End Spend.

I look forward to receiving your response

Our Response

1. Spend on Office supplies and associated products for the below financial years.
   1. 1st April 2022 – 31st March 2023
   2. 1st April 2023 – 31st March 2024
   
   Answer: - Exempt by virtue of Section 21 ‘Information accessible to applicant by other means’ of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. The information can be found at Expenditure over £250
2. Start date & duration of Contract?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
3. Is there an extension clause in the contract and, if so, the duration of the extension?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
4. Has a decision been made yet on whether the contract is to be either extended or renewed?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
5. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for the contract?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
6. Name of Incumbent Supplier?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
7. How long have you traded with them?
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Office Supplies’
8. If you publish your register of contracts and purchasing, can you please provide a website link.
   Answer: - Our contract information can be found at Procurement and Resources.
9. In addition, can you confirm if you have a contract in place for Tail End Spend.
   Answer: - No Information Held, there is no contract in place specific to ‘Tail End Spend’

21. Information accessible to applicant by other means.

1. Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant otherwise than under section 1 is exempt information.
2. For the purposes of subsection (1)—
   1. Information may be reasonably accessible to the applicant even though it is accessible only on payment, and
   2. Information is to be taken to be reasonably accessible to the applicant if it is information which the public authority or any other person is obliged by or under any enactment to communicate (otherwise than by making the information available for inspection) to members of the public on request, whether free of charge or on payment.
3. For the purposes of subsection (1), information which is held by a public authority and does not fall within subsection (2)(b) is not to be regarded as reasonably accessible to the applicant merely because the information is available from the public authority itself on request, unless the information is made available in accordance with the authority’s publication scheme and any payment required is specified in, or determined in accordance with, the scheme.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 is categorised as an Absolute and Class Based type exemption and therefore does not require a public interest test to be carried nor must Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service articulate the harm in disclosure.