Scottish Government contracts worth over £9 million: FOI release

Information requested

1. A list (including information on value) of the CONTRACTS referred to - 'contracts worth over £9 million per annum'.

2. The relevant CONTRACTS.

Response

The answer to your question is the contract referred to worth over £9 million per annum is the Scottish Government Facilities Management services which is delivered by Mitie Technical Services Ltd. The contract comprises both fixed and variable cost elements. Over the full 10-year contract term, the fixedcost element has a total value of approximately £80 Million. The variable-cost element is primarily project work and is dependent upon both the proposed programme of project works and the available budget.

Some of the information you have requested is provided in Provision of the Facilities Management Services framework/contract: FOI release - gov.scot

The contract itself is commercially confidential and it would not be possible to redact it for release without exceeding the upper cost limit.

An exemption(s) under section(s) 12(1) - complying will exceed the upper cost limit of FOISA, applies to some of the information you have requested as the tender return of the successful contractor is commercially confidential and it would not be possible to redact it for release without exceeding the upper cost limit.

While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the costs of locating, retrieving and providing the information requested would exceed the upper cost limit of £600 due to the size of the tender return documentation and the amount of redaction that would be required of commercially confidential information . Under section 12 of FOISA public authorities are not required to comply with a request for information if the authority estimates that the cost of complying would exceed the upper cost limit, which is currently set at £600 by Regulations made under section 12.

You may, however, wish to consider reducing the scope of your request in order that the costs can be brought below £600. You may also find it helpful to look at the Scottish Information Commissioner's 'Tips for requesting information under FOI and the EIRs' on his website at: http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/YourRights/Tipsforrequesters.aspx.

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