FOI release

BSSC-FOI-1223-HD: maintenance of corporate estate

Updated 10 January 2024

Professor Fraser Sampson
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF

5 July 2023

Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

To: [redacted]

Reference: BSCC-FOI-1223-HD

Letter by email

Dear [redacted]

I write in response to an email received from you to our office on 05 July 2023 in which you asked, “Please can you provide me with information concerning the maintenance of your corporate estate i.e. operational buildings, land and any other property (e.g. investment) and schools, if they are within your jurisdiction. Not any social housing/dwellings.

Q1. What type of maintenance management model does your organisation use? E.g. Managed supply-chain, single hard-fm & soft-fm contractor, internal workforce, principal contractor etc.

Q2. Can you provide a list of the approved contractors used?

Q3. What are the total values of contracts granted?

Q4. When do these contracts expire?

Q5. What services are provided in each contract?

Q6. What procurement method was used? E.g. Open ITT, Framework if so, which one?”

Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I am a regulator, independent of but appointed by government. As my office is an arm’s length body of the Home Office, I do not hold the information you have requested. You may wish to consider a separate request to the Home Office under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act should you still require the information you have asked for.

If you are dissatisfied with this response, you may request an independent internal review of our handling of your request by submitting a complaint within two months to the address below, quoting reference BSCC-FOI-1223-HD. If you ask for an internal review, it would be helpful if you could say why you are dissatisfied with the response.

Mark Greenhorn
14th Floor Lunar House Building
40 Wellesley Road
Croydon
CR9 2BY

Email: sciencesupportfoi@homeoffice.gov.uk

As part of any internal review, our handling of your information request will be reassessed by staff who were not involved in providing you with this response. If you remain dissatisfied after this internal review, you would have a right of complaint to the Information Commissioner as established by section 50 of the Freedom of Information Act.

Kind regards,

Fraser Sampson
Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner

Email: enquiries@obscc.org.uk