Freedom of information response

I include below questions regarding your energy supplies. For convenience, a summary table to fill in with your responses is included, with full detail of the questions below the table.

For the year ending March 31 2022, please provide your organisation's approximate total annual cost expenditure for grid supplies of:

• Electricity
• Natural gas

Please provide the current total number of supplies (billed meter points) for;

• Half Hourly metered electricity
• Non Half Hourly metered electricity
• Natural gas

The following questions relate to your main supplier or main contracts,  I do not require details of suppliers for a small number of miscellaneous supplies) 

Please provide the name of your current primary licensed retail suppliers for :

• Half Hourly metered electricity
• Non Half Hourly metered electricity
• Natural gas

Please provide the relevant reference number or similar reference detail of the OJEU framework or tender exercise through which supplies were procured for:

• Half Hourly metered electricity
• Non Half Hourly metered electricity
• Natural gas

If the procurement route is facilitated by a Public Sector Buying Organisation (PBO) (e.g CCS, YPO, etc), please provide the name of the PBO facilitating your contract for:

• Half Hourly metered electricity
• Non Half Hourly metered electricity
• Natural gas

Please provide contact details for the procurement manager at your Organisation responsible for these call-offs or awards of energy supply contracts, or where this person is no longer employed by your Organisation, for the relevant procurement manager currently in post. please provide their:

• Name
• Job Title
• Email Address

Please provide contact details for the operational Manager at your Organisation primarily responsible for day to day management of these supplies & costs. This would usually be an Energy Manager, Estates/Facilities Manager, or similar. Please provide their:

• Name
• Job Title
• Email Address

Unfortunately we are unable to provide in full the information you have requested.  We do hold the information but an absolute exemption applies.  Personal Information (Section 40,2)

Personal data of any other person (third party data) is exempt under section 40(2) if disclosure would breach one of the data protection principles. This aspect of Section 40 is an Absolute Exemption and is therefore not subject to the Public Interest Test.

The names of officers working for the Council is personal data specific to them. It is therefore subject to the provisions of the Data Protection Act. Information can be withheld if its disclosure would be likely to breach one or more of the Principles of the Data Protection Act. There is no prior expectation on the part of team Managers (or other officers working below the level of Director) that their names and job titles / positions would be published into the wider public domain under FOI. A disclosure made under FOI constitutes a publication to the world at large. We believe that to disclose this would be likely to breach the first Principle of the Data Protection Act by unfairly contravening their right to privacy and confidentiality in the work place.

You are free to use any information supplied to you for your own use, including non-commercial research purposes.  However, any other type of re-use, for example, by publishing the information or issuing copies to the public will require the permission of the copyright owner.

Where the copyright is owned by Thurrock Council, you must apply to the Council to re-use the information.  Please email information.matters@thurrock.gov.uk if you wish to re-use the information you have been supplied. For information where the copyright is owned by another person or organisation, you must apply to the copyright owner to obtain their permission.

If you are dissatisfied with the way in which the council have managed your FOI request you can pursue an Internal Review by contacting us using the above email address. Your request will be considered by a senior member of the Information Management Team who will update you with the outcome of the review. 

If you remain unhappy following the outcome of your Internal Review you may wish to refer your case to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) and details of this organisation can be found at www.ico.org.uk . Please be advised that the ICO will not consider your case until they have confirmation that you have already been through the Internal Review stage with the council.