IT Suppliers - 642/20

Date Responded 04 May 2020

Provision of information held by Northumbria Police made under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (the 'Act')

As you may be aware the purpose of the Act is to allow a general right of access to information held at the time of a request, by a Public Authority (including the Police), subject to certain limitations and exemptions.

You asked:

1. Does the police force outsource and use 3rd party suppliers under any of the following 3 categories?

- IT Hardware/Software.

- IT Support.

- IT Services and communication.

2. If so who are the suppliers/resellers used and what has the spend been with them in the last 6 months?

3. Who are the contacts/procurement in the police force to speak with in order to get added as an IT supplier to the police force?

4. Who are the IT managers in the police force in place and there contact details?

In Response:

Following receipt of your request, searches were conducted with both the ICT and Procurement Departments.  I can confirm that the information you have requested is held by Northumbria Police.

1–3.  As the information you have requested at these points is accessible by other means I have not provided you with a copy of the information and will rely on Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.  You should therefore consider this a refusal for those parts your request.

I have provided an explanation to this exemption below.

Section 21 (1) - Information accessible by other means

Information which is reasonably accessible to the applicant is exempt information.

This information is freely available via the Bluelight Procurement Database (under the IT category) which is aimed at improving visibility and access to contract and procurement information, and also the via the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner website (under Finance).  In order to aid and assist you further the links to these have been provided below – and from these you will be able to extract the data you require.

https://www.blpd.gov.uk/foi/foi.aspx

http://www.northumbria-pcc.gov.uk/transparency/finance/chief-constable-spend-500/

4. The contact details for the IT managers are:-

Disclaimer

Due to the different methods of recording information across 43 forces, a specific response from one constabulary should not be seen as an indication of what information could be supplied (within cost) by another. Systems used for recording these figures are not generic, nor are the procedures used locally in capturing the data. For this reason responses between forces may differ, and should not be used for comparative purposes.

The information we have supplied to you is likely to contain intellectual property rights of Northumbria Police. Your use of the information must be strictly in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 (as amended) or such other applicable legislation. In particular, you must not re-use this information for any commercial purpose.

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