Mobile phone contracts

FOI request reference: CAS-87277
Publication date: June 2022

Request

I would be grateful if you could please send me the following information with regards to the organisation’s mobile phones contract.
You may have received the same request in the past and this information sent has now expired and I require an update as soon as possible for the following information:

1. Network Provider(s) – Please provide me with the network provider, if the contract is managed for example by Daisy, please state the network provider for e.g., Vodafone, O2, EE.
2. Annual Average Spend for each contract if there is more than one contract network.
3. Contract Start Date.
4. Contract Expiry Date. If the contract has expired or is rolling please state.
5. Duration of the contract – Please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
6. Contract Review Date – Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.
7. Number of Connections – number of voices only devices, voice and data devices, data only devices.
8. The person in the organisation responsible for this particular contract. Can you send me contact name, Job title, contact number and email add?

Please can you provide me with the latest information – If the organisations are currently out to tender, please can you also state the approx. date of the award along with the information above.
If this contract was awarded within the past three months, can you please provide me with a shortlist of suppliers that bid on the contract?

Outcome

Some information provided.

Response

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with some of this information because it is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA. This exempts information if the information is readily available by other means.

For further information about why this exemption has been applied, please see the explanatory Annex at the end of this response.

We are pleased to be able to provide this information to you:

Some information regarding our mobile phone contract is contained in a previous FOI response and published on our website. Please use the following link to access our previous response:

Mobile phone contracts – Freedom of Information (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
Network Provider(s) – Please provide me with the network provider, if the contract is managed for example by Daisy, please state the network provider for e.g. Vodafone, O2, EE.
This information is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA. Please see the link provided above.
Annual Average Spend for each contract if there is more than one contract Network
Information about all contracts and agreements with a value over £10,000 are published in the public domain and is covered by the exemption at Section 21 of the FOI Act. The information is already published in the public domain as per the link below:

Mobile SIM Only Contract – Contracts Finder
Contract Start Date
Information about all contracts and agreements with a value over £10,000 are published in the public domain and is covered by the exemption at Section 21 of the FOI Act. The information is already published in the public domain as per the link below:

Mobile SIM Only Contract – Contracts Finder
Contract Expiry Date, if the contract as expired or is rolling please state
Information about all contracts and agreements with a value over £10,000 are published in the public domain and is covered by the exemption at Section 21 of the FOI Act. The information is already published in the public domain as per the link below:

Mobile SIM Only Contract – Contracts Finder
Duration of the contract – please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
Information about all contracts and agreements with a value over £10,000 are published in the public domain and is covered by the exemption at Section 21 of the FOI Act. The information is already published in the public domain as per the link below:

Mobile SIM Only Contract – Contracts Finder
Contract Review Date – Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract
This information is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA. Please see the link provided above.
Number of Connections – number of voices only devices, voice and data devices, data only devices
This information is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA. Please see the link provided above.
The person in the organisation responsible for this particular contract. Can you send me contact name, job title, contact number and email add?

This information is covered by the exemption at section 21 of the FOIA.

Exemptions applied

Section 21: Information readily available to the applicant by other means

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) does not oblige a public authority to provide information if it is already reasonably accessible by other means. In this case the exemption applies because the information is already available.

Further guidance can be found at: Section 21 – Information readily available to the applicant by other means (ICO.org.uk).