Scottish Government funding for Go-Centric: FOI release

Information requested

1. How much money has the Scottish Government given to Go-Centric since 2020, with a breakdown of costs, and how much has it managed to get back from the company?

Response

In response to your request we have searched Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) for contracts awarded with Go-Centric since 2020, this search provided a nil return confirming the Scottish Government have had no contracts with Go-Centric. We have searched for any spend with Go-Centric via the Scottish Procurement Information Hub in the Scottish Government and have confirmed there has been no spend with them since 2020.

As we hold no data for your response, we are formally providing a Section 17(1) of FOISA (Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002), the Scottish Government does not have the information you have requested.

I would like to share with you previous FOI responses which were published by the NHS relating to Go-Centric:

• https://www.nss.nhs.scot/publications/foi-000326-go-centric-covid-19-test-and-trace-activity/  
• https://www.nss.nhs.scot/media/3865/foi-000326-appendix-4-ncc-and-gocentric-qanda.pdf 
• https://www.nss.nhs.scot/media/3864/foi-000326-appendix-3-re_-ncc-commercial-contractor.pdf

I would also like to draw your attention to our regular published spend for transactions over £500 for electronic Purchasing Cards (ePC):

• Government spend over £500: monthly reports - gov.scot
• and also our monthly and annual reports of Scottish Government spend over £25,000 Government spend over £25,000: monthly and annual reports - gov.scot.

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