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    • FOI request (FOI-69890624)

      Outsourcing contracts

      Requested Fri 09 March 2018
      Responded Tue 17 July 2018

      I am writing to make an open government request for all the information to which I am entitled under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

      Please send me:

      1. How many outsourcing contracts have you outsourced in the last five financial years, and the details/ the nature of these contracts?
      2. Who are the companies you have outsourced to, with regards to the above?
      3. What has your total spend been on outsourcing contracts in each of the last five financial years?
      4. Who many, and which services, have you brought in house over the past five financial years? And what were the nature/ type of those services? Please give any details you can.
      5. Could you say how much you think bringing in house any contracts has saved – or increased costs.

      Response

      Please accept my apologies for the delay in responding, we have installed a new Freedom of Information system and have experienced a few problems.
      For clarification, our answer is based on the following definition of outsourcing: "In business, outsourcing is an agreement in which one company contracts its own internal activity to different company".
      Q1 - We haven't newly outsourced any council activity in the last five financial years.
      Q2 - There have been no new outsourced activities in the last 5 years but our services which have been outsourced since many years before are:
      Waste and Recycling c.£2.5million per annum
      Grounds Maintenance c.£900,00 per annum
      Theatre Management c.£500,000 per annum
      Public Convenience and Office Cleaning c.£200,000 per annum
      Leisure Management Concession agreement
      Building Control now managed on our behalf by Wealden District Council for a fee
      Q3 - Please see above for an estimation.
      Q4 - We have not brought back in-house any outsourced services over the past five financial years.
      Q5 - Answer: Not applicable
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