Car Parking charges and false information from Ipserv Ltd

Fruitcake

Castle said:

Umkomaas said:

Good resilience in pushing this forward. 

I'm a bit puzzled as to what the ICO is saying in 'He also considers that the University holds no information about the tendering process'. Is this a criticism of or an escape route for the University?  Or is it something I've misunderstood?

Or maybe there was no tendering process!!

In which case the FOI should have revealed this, but I suspect this fact wasn't mentioned because the university's process requires it, and they were too embarrassed to admit they coqued-up.

Jenni_D

Fruitcake said:

Castle said:

Umkomaas said:

Good resilience in pushing this forward. 

I'm a bit puzzled as to what the ICO is saying in 'He also considers that the University holds no information about the tendering process'. Is this a criticism of or an escape route for the University?  Or is it something I've misunderstood?

Or maybe there was no tendering process!!

In which case the FOI should have revealed this, but I suspect this fact wasn't mentioned because the university's process requires it, and they were too embarrassed to admit they coqued-up.

Which is exactly how I read it. They've tried to pull a fast-one and have been caught with their pants down.  

Cardriver45

They've provided me with the contract now. I'm not sure what I am supposed to be looking for.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/freedom_of_information_act_reque_208?nocache=incoming-2127922#incoming-2127922

Fruitcake

You sent an FOI asking for sight the contract as well as the tendering process. The latter has still not been provided, nor an explanation why not.
The ICO believes the Uni does not hold this information, but this begs the question, why not.

Perhaps you should thank them for the copy of the contract extract and then politely ask them when they will be providing the details of the tendering process as originally requested in the FOI.
Ask them specifically if a tendering process was carried out and if there was, ask them why they are they refusing to provide it, or if there wasn't one, why not.

Do you know if they are supposed to have a tendering process for contractors?
Do you know if Ipserve have been granted advertising consent from the local planning department for their signs? Not having it is a breach of para 12 of the PoFA, and more importantly, not having it is a criminal offence.

Cardriver45

Here's the unis reply re the tendering process

Cardriver45

I'm guessing, as no one has replied to my post about the response from the uni re the tendering process, that there is no point in me persuing this any further?

Fruitcake

Unless you can find some other rule or regulation covering the Uni tendering process, I would suggest that no, there is no point in pursuing this further.

Cardriver45

Fruitcake said:

Unless you can find some other rule or regulation covering the Uni tendering process, I would suggest that no, there is no point in pursuing this further.

Well I got the outcome I wanted anyway, so I'm happy.

Thanks for the help everyone, it was a great service.