Call-Off Contracts

FOI request reference: CAS-105608-Z7X7J9
Publication date: January 2023

Request

I am doing a research project investigating call-off contracts in the public sector. I have identified some potential call-off contracts awarded by the National Archives, but I can’t find details of the framework agreements they were awarded from.

I have attached an Excel file that contains the information I am looking at. The last two columns (“Title of framework used” and “Contracts Finder or TED link of framework agreement”) is where I am missing information – please could you fill these in.

Please note that I have identified these contracts as possible call-off contracts, so some of them might not be. Some could be, for instance, procured directly (without being called off from a framework agreement), or could be themselves notices of the establishment of a framework agreement. Therefore, I would kindly ask you to specify in these incidences what kind of procurement was used in the “Title of framework used” column.

Outcome

Some Information Provided

Response

Please see the following link where we have supplied the ‘Title of framework used’. We were not able to supply information in the column ‘Contracts Finder or TED link of framework agreement’. This is because the framework in question (GCloud 12) was awarded by Crown Commercial Service and not The National Archives. For your information, GCloud 12 has now closed and has been replaced by GCloud 13.
https://cdn.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/cas-105608-call-off-contracts-attachment.xlsx