Lincolnshire County Council Mobile Phones contract - Find a freedom of information request

Request

Regards to the organisation's Mobile Phones contract.

If there is more than one provider, please split all the information including the annual average spend, number of connections, duration, contract dates and internal contact details.

1. Network Provider(s) - Please provide me with the network provider name e.g., EE, Telefonica, Vodafone, Three

2. Annual Average Spend for each Network Provider - If this is a new contract, can you please provide the estimated annual spend.

3. Number of Connections- Number of connections for each network provider. (Number of voices only devices, voice and data devices, data only devices) please provide me with the breakdown and
not the overall total.

4. Duration of the contract- please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.

5. Contract Start Date- please can you provide me with the start date of the signed agreement. Please do not provide me with the framework contract date I require the contract dates of the signed
agreement. (if there are multiple start dates, could you please provide me with the earliest date for each provider)

6. Contract Expiry Date- please can you provide me with the expiry date of the signed agreement. Please do not provide me with the framework contract date. I require the contract dates of the signed
agreement. If the contract is rolling, please state.

7. Contract Review Date- Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.

8. The person in the organisation responsible for this particular contract. Can you send me the full contact details Contact Name, Job Title, Contact Number and direct email address for each network
provider? If full contact details cannot be provided, please send me their actual job title.

9.If the mobile phone contract is provided by a managed contract, please provide me with the actual name of the network provider along with the number of connections and the internal contact from
within the organisation responsible for this contract.

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.

Also, if the contract in the response has expired/rolling please can you provide me with further information if available of the organisation's plans going forward with regards to mobiles and the
contract status?

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?
 

Decision

1. Details of the contract are published on the Council's contract register and may be found at 

Mobile voice,Text and Data Contract

2. As question 1

3. As at 1st February 2024:

Smartphones 3,926

Laptops/Tablets 2,151

MiFi 207

Other devices 159

Talk & Text only 780

4-9. As per Question 1

10. N/a

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means

Reference number
FOI 9461573
Date request received
18/04/24
Date of decision
13/05/24