Disclosure Log
Planned Health and Social Care Commissioning Pipeline (FOI/8652)
Message from Nottinghamshire County Council - 01 October 2026
Dear **********,
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT 2000 – REQUEST FOR INFORMATION REFERENCE FOI/8652
Thank you for your request for information relating to Planned Health and Social Care Commissioning Pipeline.
We are now able to provide the following information:
The Council holds some information relevant to your request in published sources which are reasonably accessible to you. This information is therefore exempt from disclosure under Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (Information Accessible by Other Means).
The Council publishes its forward procurement pipeline, which includes information on contracts expected to be procured or re-procured over the coming period. This can be accessed here: Procurement Pipeline | Nottinghamshire County Council
In addition, under the Procurement Act, the Council publishes Pipeline Notices on the Find a Tender service. These notices contain information such as:
- Procurement title and reference;
- Contract subject matter;
- Estimated publication date of the procurement notice;
- Contract location; and
- In some cases, contract value and sourcing method.
However, the published information does not contain all of the specific information requested. In particular, information such as:
- The anticipated procurement route;
- Publication dates for market engagement activity;
- Contract terms and extension options;
- Details of planned market engagement events, provider information sessions or pre-procurement consultation activity; and
- Other future commissioning information not currently published,
is not held in a single recorded source.
To determine whether such information is held and to identify, extract and collate any relevant information, the Council would need to review approximately 120 individual pipeline records and consult a number of separate systems and sources. The Procurement Team estimates that this exercise would take in excess of 20 hours.
Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 provides that a public authority is not obliged to comply with a request if it estimates that the cost of determining whether the information is held, locating, retrieving and extracting the information would exceed the appropriate limit. For local authorities, the appropriate limit is £450, equivalent to 18 hours of work at the prescribed rate of £25 per hour.
The Council therefore refuses this part of your request under Section 12(1) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000, as complying with the request would exceed the appropriate cost limit.
Under our duty to provide advice and assistance pursuant to Section 16 of the Act, we would direct you to the published Procurement Pipeline and the Find a Tender Pipeline Notices, which provide the majority of the information currently available regarding planned procurement activity.
We trust this now satisfies your request and that you find this information to be helpful, however if you are unhappy with the way in which your request has been handled, then please email us at [email protected] quoting the reference FOI/8652 and we will be happy to review your request
For future reference, Nottinghamshire County Council regularly publishes previous FOI requests and answers on its website, under Disclosure logs, that may provide details relating to your query. (see link) Your privacy: we use your personal information such as name and address so that we can comply with our legal obligations to respond to FOI requests. For further details about the use of information about you, please see the information handling privacy notice on our website at https://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/media/4323566/informationgovernanceandinformationrightsprivacynotice.pdf
If you are dissatisfied with the handling of your request, you have the right to ask for an internal review. Requests should be submitted within 40 working days of the date of receipt of the response to your original request and should be addressed to: Complaints and Information Team, Nottinghamshire County Council, County Hall, Loughborough Road, West Bridgford, NOTTINGHAM, NG2 7QP or [email protected].
Please remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.
If you are not content with the outcome of the internal review, you have the right to apply directly to the Information Commissioner for a decision. The Information Commissioner can be contacted at: Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, WILMSLOW, SK9 5AF or Yours sincerely
Complaints and Information Team
Nottinghamshire County Council
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