FOI request (FOI-69892235)

Supplier payment terms - Carillion

Requested Fri 09 March 2018
Responded  Tue 01 May 2018

I am writing to you in order to make a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act.

I should like to request the following information relating to payment terms with your suppliers; and of any sub-contracting or outsourcing works involving Carillion since 1 January 2016.

For all 4 questions, I have listed the possible responses after the question for you to select.

I should prefer to receive your responses in electronic format at this email address, however, I am happy to receive them by post if that is more convenient (details by signature furthest below).

If for any reason you feel this request is unclear, please do not hesitate to contact me on 02074572836. If you are not the appropriate authority for one or more of these questions, I'd be grateful if you could please let me know as soon as is convenient with a suggestion of the correct contact email address in the local authority.

Please respond by close of play 5 April 2018.

Payment

1. For civil engineering, construction and building maintenance contracts (including frameworks) established since 1 January 2017, have you incorporated into contractual requirements for your main contractors/suppliers to pay the suppliers directly below them in the supply chain within 30 days (or are you taking steps to apply this)?

a. We have built in a contractual requirement for payment to flow through the supply chain within 30 days routinely

b. We are taking steps to apply a contractual requirement for payment to flow through the supply chain within 30 days routinely

c. We have not and will not be building in a contractual requirement for payment to flow through the supply chain within 30 days

d. If you don't know, please provide information on what policy you do pursue

2. For civil engineering, construction and building maintenance contracts (including frameworks) established since 1 January 2017, have you, or will you, be putting in place monitoring and reporting whether your main contractors/suppliers are paying their sub-contractors/suppliers within 30 days?

a. We are already monitoring and reporting that payment takes place within 30 days routinely

b. We will be monitoring and reporting that payment takes place within 30 days routinely

c. We don't and will not be monitoring and reporting that payment takes place within 30 days

d. If you don't know, please provide information on what policy you do pursue

Carillion

3. Have you sub-contracted or outsourced (through framework agreements or otherwise) any civil engineering, maintenance or construction work to Carillion (or any of their subsidiaries or joint venture vehicles) since 1 January 2016?

a. YES

b. NO

c. DON'T KNOW

4. For any sub-contracted or outsourced civil engineering, maintenance or construction work let to Carillion (or any of their subsidiaries or joint venture vehicles) since 1 January 2016, did you insert a contractual requirement into any of the contracts for Carillion to pay suppliers directly below them in the supply chain within 30 days; and was there ever any monitoring undertaken to check compliance for any of these contracts?

a. YES to inserting a contractual requirement only

b. YES to monitoring only

c. YES to both

d. NO to both

e. DON'T KNOW

Response