Goods or service suppliers - Find a freedom of information request

Request

I am trying to understand the number of SME suppliers the public sector purchases from so please can you send me a list of all suppliers you purchase goods or services from and the annual value you bought from them in your last financial year.

Please note this information is not commercially sensitive as all you will be giving me is the total money spent with each supplier not any detail of what you bought.

Decision

I can confirm that the information requested is held by Lincolnshire County Council. I have detailed below the information that is being released to you.

This information is already publicly available in the form of the contract register.

Please see link: Procurement Contracts-Datasets-Lincolnshire Open Data (ckan.io)

As such, this information is exempt from disclosure in accordance with the exemption set out at Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 which provides that a public authority need not comply with a request for disclosure under the Act where that information is reasonably accessible by other means.

Reference number
FOI 8244565
Date request received
31/10/23
Date of decision
22/11/23