You asked
Could you please provide the following information with regards to the Office of National Statistics' mobile phones contract:
Network Provider(s)
Annual Average Spend over the last 3 years. If this is a new contract can you, please provide the estimated annual spend.
Number of Connections for voice only devices, voice and data devices and data only devices,
Duration of the contract - please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
Contract Start Date - please can you provide me with the start date of the signed agreement.
Contract Expiry Date - please can you provide me with the expiry date of the signed agreement.
Contract Review Date - Please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.
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 email address for each network provider? If full contact details cannot be provided, please send me their actual job title.
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.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Please find the answers to your questions below.
1. Network Provider(s) - please provide me with the network provider name.
Vodafone and EE
2. Annual Average Spend - can you please provide me with the average annual spend over the last 3 years.
Vodafone - £275,000
EE - £117,000
3. Number of Connections for voice only devices, voice and data devices and data only devices.
Vodafone
Data Only Device Price Plan (Wifi Dongles, Tablets, Mobile Wifi devices): 224
Voice and Data Plans (We used a Shared Data Pool for Data) (IPhones, Samsungs and some other older devices): 1132
Total Sim Connections with Vodafone = 1356
EE
Voice and Data Plans: 817
This will rise to 1027 by the next quarter
4. Duration of the contract- please state if the contract also includes contract extensions for each provider.
Vodafone – 13/12/2016 – 13/08/2019
EE – 19/07/2017 – 18/07/2019
5. Contract Start Date- please can you provide me with the start date of the signed agreement.
Vodafone – 13/12/2016
EE – 19/07/2017
6. Contract Expiry Date- please can you provide me with the expiry date of the signed agreement.
Vodafone – 13/08/2019
EE – 18/07/2019
7. Contract Review Date - please can you provide me with a date when the organisation plans to review this contract.
Vodafone – 01/05/2019
EE – 01/05/2019
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 email address for each network provider? If full contact details cannot be provided, please send me their actual job title.
Contact details of members of staff are considered as personal data and will be withheld under s.40(2) of the Freedom of Information Act 2000. There is not one individual person who is responsible for contracts. They are all handled by our Commercial Team, depending on the nature of the contract. If you have any questions in relation to our contracts, please contact us at: ons.contract.management@ons.gov.uk
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