Mobile Telephony Services
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Publication Number
PUB 1222
FOI Reference Number
15900
Request Title
Mobile Telephony Services
Date Range
N/A
Information Requested
1. How many employees are at your organization?
2. How many mobile phone and mobile broadband (data only) connections do you currently have?
3. What is the split between mobile phone and mobile broadband connections?
4. Who is your mobile phone network provider?
5. Did you switch providers on your last renewal?
6. Please provide a monthly breakdown of your total mobile phone contract costs for the past 12 months, and state whether VAT has been included in the numbers given.
7. Does your contract include a hardware, tech or transformation fund?
8. If the answer to question 7 is yes, what was the value of the fund upon the signing of the current contract?
9. How have you sourced the contract?
10. What is the contract term length?
11. How long do you have remaining on your current contract?
12. Who is the primary contact for this contract?
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
16 August 2021
Date of Disclosure
17 August 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15900 Response
Having completed enquiries within Essex Police in respect of Section 1(1)(a), Essex Police does hold information relating to your request, Essex Police can confirm in respect of Section 1(1)(b) the following data:
Caveat: The data is correct as at 16 August 2021.
1. How many employees are at your organization?
Workforce statistics are published by the Home Office – please see below link:
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/police-workforce-england-and-wales-31-march-2021
2. How many mobile phone and mobile broadband (data only) connections do you currently have?
5,000+.
3. What is the split between mobile phone and mobile broadband connections?
Less than 200 data only connections per force, the rest are mobile phone voice and data.
4. Who is your mobile phone network provider?
EE is the network provider.
5. Did you switch providers on your last renewal?
No.
6. Please provide a monthly breakdown of your total mobile phone contract costs for the past 12 months, and state whether VAT has been included in the numbers given.
|
Month |
Amount |
|---|---|
|
Jul-20 |
8,643 |
|
Aug-20 |
1,519 |
|
Sep-20 |
2,912 |
|
Oct-20 |
9,865 |
|
Nov-20 |
6,314 |
|
Dec-20 |
10,640 |
|
Jan-21 |
17,900 |
|
Feb-21 |
3,791 |
|
Mar-21 |
17,901 |
|
Apr-21 |
3,686 |
|
May-21 |
20,570 |
|
Jun-21 |
26,809 |
|
Total |
130,550 |
These are the monthly mobile costs for the last 12 complete months. These figures exclude any VAT and is the actual expenditure posted in those months and not the costs for those months.
7. Does your contract include a hardware, tech or transformation fund?
No.
8. If the answer to question 7 is yes, what was the value of the fund upon the signing of the current contract?
Not applicable.
9. How have you sourced the contract?
[email protected] - Crown Commercial Services Framework.
10. What is the contract term length?
3 years (Initial Term) plus 2 years (Extension Term).
11. How long do you have remaining on your current contract?
22 months.
12. Who is the primary contact for this contract?
Head of Procurement Services - [email protected]
FOI Reference Number
15977
Request Title
Mobile and Telephony Contract
Date Range
N/A
Information Requested
1. Please provide me with the network provider name e.g. EE, Telefonica, Vodafone, Three.
2. Can you please provide me with the average annual spend over the last 3 years. If this is a new contract can you please provide the estimated annual spend.
3. Number of connections for each network provider (number of voice 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. 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. 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. 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 e-mail 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 current 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?
Disclosure with Exemptions
Full Disclosure
Information Correct as at
28 July 2021
Date of Disclosure
17 August 2021
Related Documents/Links
N/A
FOI 15977 Response
1. Please provide me with the network provider name e.g. EE, Telefonica, Vodafone, Three.
EE is the network provider.
2. Can you please provide me with the average annual spend over the last 3 years. If this is a new contract can you please provide the estimated annual spend.
£132K.
3. Number of connections for each network provider (number of voice only devices, voice and data devices, data only devices) please provide me with the breakdown and not the overall total.
The number of connections are listed below:
- 317 data and dongles
- 91 with data bar being used as voice only devices
- 5,515 tablets and phones used as data and voice.
4. Duration of the contract - please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
3 years (Initial Term) plus 2 years (Extension Term).
5. 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).
June 2018.
6. 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.
June 2023.
7. Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.
January 2023.
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 e-mail address for each network provider? If full contact details cannot be provided please send me their actual job title.
Job Title: Head of Procurement Services
E-mail: [email protected]
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.
Not applicable as not a managed 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.
Not applicable.
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 current status?
Not applicable.
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?
Not applicable.