FOI request (FOI219523)

Customer Experience feedback

Requested Tue 22 August 2017
Responded  Tue 22 August 2017

Under the Freedom of Information Act, I would like to request the following information, for any Service User and/or Customer Experience feedback surveys and contracts in place within the authority. 

1.      Current supplier of service user/customer experience feedback surveys (This may be more than one.  For example, one supplier may be providing a survey solution for community feedback whilst a different supplier may provide a survey solution for feedback within care homes and another supplier for contact centre surveys.    Please provide details of supplier contracts for all).

2.      Value of individual contract/s (please specify whether "including VAT" or "plus VAT").

3.      Renewal date of current contract/s.

4.      Contact details of officer/s responsible for the contract/s.

5.      Brief description of service provided by current supplier.

6.      Where contracts have been renewed in the last 6 months, please can you also provide a short list of suppliers that bid for each contract.

7.      Typical route to tender (i.e., what procurement portal or individual quote requests etc.).

8.      Does the authority own and/or run care homes and if yes, how many.

Response

Hastings Borough Council is a relatively small urban district authority that does not have any care homes. We have not commissioned any service user / customer experience feedback surveys. We do however, have a community contact centre and do carry out customer satisfaction surveys in-house carried out by our own officers. We encourage anyone wishing to do business with the council to register on the South East Shared Services e-sourcing portal: https://www.sesharedservices.org.uk/esourcing . This covers all the councils in East Sussex, West Sussex, Surrey and Slough and is free to register.