Amazon Contract (844A/22)

17 August 2022 | Finance and Procurement

Request

Response

We can confirm that some relevant information is held by West Midlands Police. However, we are withholding that information since it is exempt by virtue of the following exemptions.

 

S43 Commercial Interests

S40 (2) Personal information

 

Section 40(2) is an absolute and class-based exemption if to release the information exists would breach the third party’s data protection rights.  In this case to release this personal information would not constitute fair processing of the data. As this exemption is class based I am not required to identify the harm in disclosure and in this instance, I believe that the right to privacy outweighs any public interest in release.

These exemptions and explanatory notes are shown here:

https://www.app.college.police.uk/app-content/information-management/freedom-of-information/#freedom-of-information-exemptions

 

The answers that we are able to reply to are detailed below:

• As of June 2022, what is the current number of contracts held by your police force with Amazon.com, Inc. and/or its subsidiaries?

 

1 – Only AWS Public Cloud Services – Amazon Web Services

• What is the total value of those contracts in GBP?

 

£458,500 per annum

• What is the nature of the services provided under these contracts?

 

IT – Cloud Based Services

If relevant, please provide any documentation pertaining to the above questions

Please see three attached documents for the redacted policy, the policy has been split into three emails due to the size.

Amazon contract pages 1 – 35 redacted

Amazon contract pages 36 – 71 redacted

Amazon contract pages 72 – end redacted

In line with the above, I am required to complete a Prejudice Test/Public Interest Test (PIT) on disclosure. Please find this PIT (PIT 844A/22) attached.

Attachments

844A_22 PIT

Amazon contract pages 1 to 35 redacted

Amazon contract pages 36 – 71 redacted

Amazon contract pages 72 – end redacted