FOI Release: Contracts awarded to supported businesses

Published: 07 August 2024
Freedom of information class: How we procure goods and services

Information request under the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA).


FOI reference: CW-2024-363
Date received: 12 July 2024
Date clarified: 18 July 2024

Date responded to: 02 August 2024

Information requested:

  1. The number of contracts you have awarded to supported businesses in each of the last five financial years (i.e.. 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23 and 2023-24).
  2. The cumulative value of your spend on these contracts in each of these years.
  3. For each of these years, the number of contracts awarded to supported businesses that you have utilised by any procurement body of which you are member.
  4. The cumulative value of spend by you on those contracts awarded by any procurement body of which you are a member in each of these years.
  5. You subsequently clarified that: “Any procurement body of which you are a member” means an organisation that may procure goods or services on your behalf.

Response:

  1. Please see the table below.
  2. Please see the table below.
  3. Not applicable – RoS has not utilised any contracts awarded to supported businesses by any organisation that procures goods or services on our behalf.
  4. Not applicable – see answer to Question 3 above.
Financial year Number of contracts awarded to supported businesses Cumulative Value
2019/20 1 £749.00
2020/21 1 £348.72
2021/22 1 £543.00
2022/23 - -
2023/24 - -

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