FOI release: FOI-0015: redacted response

Office of the Forensic Science Regulator
c/o Home Office Science
23 Stephenson Street
Birmingham
B2 4BJ

Thank you for your e-mail of 08/08/2023, in which you ask for information relating to the authority’s current Multi-Functional Devices and printing/scanning services contract(s) including the following:

What services are included in the contract(s)? (e.g. printing vs scanning etc)

Which supplier is delivering them? (If in-house, please confirm or if multiple provider please identify them)

How many contracts does this entail and what’s the award value for each?

When do these contracts expire and do they have any extensions?

What is the annual volumetric data (split by Annual Mono and Annual Colour print)?

What is the total number of devices supplied?

What Managed Print Service software solution do you use?

How many Mono MFDs and Colour MFDs do you have?

What document management solution do you use?

What High Volume printing devices do you use?

Were any framework agreements used to procure the goods/services? If so, which ones?

Any documentation you can provide me with, e.g. the order form

What department is managing the contract and who’s the decision-maker?

How many Adobe Acrobat (standard, professional and reader) licenses do you have?

Your request has been handled as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

The Forensic Science Regulator does not hold the information which you have requested.

The Forensic Science Regulator is a public appointee and an arms-length body of government who operates independently, on behalf of the criminal justice system as a whole.

The Regulator is supported by a team of officials known as the Office of the Forensic Science Regulator (OFSR) who work under the direction of the Regulator and are employed by the Home Office.

Both the Regulator and OFSR use Home Office IT infrastructure, and therefore do not have access to the information you are requesting.