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FOI – 2023-000263 Contracts Awarded To Supports Businesses (HTML)

Published on 09 August 2024

Date received – 11 July 2024 | Date responded – 08 August 2024

Request

  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.

Response

I refer to your freedom of information request that we received on 11 July 2024. We have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information:

  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).
  • 2019-20 - 1
  • 2020-21 - 1
  • 2021-22 - 1
  • 2022-23 - 2
  • 2023-24 - 1
  1. The cumulative value of your spend on these contracts in each of these years.
  • 2019-20 - £707
  • 2020-21 - £892,997
  • 2021-22 - £362,255
  • 2022-23 - £943,729
  • 2023-24 - £1,030,584
  1. 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.
  • 2019-20 - 1 (Supported Business Framework Scottish Government)
  • 2020-21 - 0
  • 2021-22 - 0
  • 2022-23 - 1 (Supported Business Framework Scottish Government)
  • 2023-24 - 0
  1. 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.
  • 2019-20 - £707
  • 2020-21 - £41,012
  • 2021-22 - £60,476
  • 2022-23 - £397,255
  • 2023-24 - £363,177

I trust you will find the information of assistance and if you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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