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Waste Management Contract

Request date
2 June 2025

Outcome
Full disclosure

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Confidential Waste Destruction Contract

The details I require are:

  1. Has confidential waste been procured via tender or framework, or another means, if other means, please confirm how you procured your confidential waste.
  2. If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please?
  3. Actual contract values of each framework/contract (& any sub lots)
  4. Start date (month and year) & duration of contract
  5. Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension, along with the final possible contract end date?
  6. Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?
  7. Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
  8. Do you have a generic email address for your procurement department, for example procurement@organisation.com, if so could you confirm this?
  9. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?
  10. Who is the current supplier?
  11. If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste/Cleaning Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation? E.g., which company's staff actually collect your confidential waste?
  12. Will this request and response be published on your website>? If so, could you provide a link?

Response

Thank you for your request which has been processed under the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIRs).

In your email you have requested information in relation to a Confidential Waste Destruction Contract. The Gambling Commissions responses to your questions are as follows:

  1. Has confidential waste been procured via tender or framework, or another means, if other means, please confirm how you procured your confidential waste.

The confidential waste contract has been procured via a framework.

  1. If a framework, could you confirm the name of the framework please?

ESPO 981-23

  1. Actual contract values of each framework/contract (& any sub lots)

£3800 4. Start date (month and year) & duration of contract

13/12/2024 and the duration is 14 months.

  1. Is there an extension clause in the framework(s)/contract(s) and, if so, the duration of the extension, along with the final possible contract end date?

Extension x 2 -12 months terminating Feb 27 and 12 months terminating Feb 28.

  1. Has a decision been made yet on whether the framework(s)/contract(s) are being either extended or renewed?

A decision has not yet on whether the contract will be extended or renewed. As such, no recorded information is held falling within the scope of this part of your request.

  1. Who is the procurement officer responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please? These individuals have a legitimate expectation that their personal details will not be disclosed unnecessarily as they are not public facing roles or roles that are senior enough to warrant their identities being made publicly available.

This information shall therefore not be disclosed under section 12(3) of the EIR -

(3) To the extent that the information requested includes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject, the personal data shall not be disclosed otherwise than in accordance with regulation 13.

Any enquiries can be directed to our Procurement Manager at - procurement@gamblingcommission.gov.uk

  1. Do you have a generic email address for your procurement department, for example procurement@organisation.com, if so could you confirm this?

procurement@gamblingcommission.gov.uk

  1. Who is the senior officer (outside of procurement) responsible for this contract and could you provide their email address and phone number please?

These individuals have a legitimate expectation that their personal details will not be disclosed unnecessarily as they are not public facing roles or roles that are senior enough to warrant their identities being made publicly available.

This information shall therefore not be disclosed under section 12(3) of the EIR -

(3) To the extent that the information requested includes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject, the personal data shall not be disclosed otherwise than in accordance with regulation 13.

Any enquiries can be directed to our Procurement Manager at - procurement@gamblingcommission.gov.uk

  1. Who is the current supplier?

Restore Datashred.

  1. If your current supplier is a Facilities Management/Waste/Cleaning Company, which sub-contractor services your organisation? E.g., which company's staff actually collect your confidential waste?

Restore Datashred collect our confidential waste.

  1. Will this request and response be published on your website?

The Gambling Commission’s Freedom of Information and Environmental Information Regulations register lists our responses to requests.

The register will be updated proactively, with requests and responses published shortly after the response has been sent to the requestor.

Review of the decision

If you are unhappy with the service you have received in relation to your Freedom of Information request you are entitled to an internal review of our decision. You should write to FOI Team, Gambling Commission, 4th floor, Victoria Square House, Victoria Square, Birmingham, B2 4BP or by reply to this email. 

Please note, internal review requests should be made within 40 working days of the initial response. Requests made outside this timeframe will not be processed.

If you are not content with the outcome of our review, you may then apply directly to the Information Commissioner (ICO) for a decision. Generally, the ICO cannot make a decision unless you have already exhausted the review procedure provided by the Gambling Commission. 

It should be noted that if you wish to raise a complaint with the ICO about the Commission’s handling of your request for information, then you are required to do so within six weeks of receiving your final response or last substantive contact with us.

The ICO can be contacted at: The Information Commissioner’s Office (opens in a new tab), Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

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