Essential Maintenance
Due to essential maintenance on Wednesday 24th July, all online forms will be unavailable. We apologise for any inconvenience.
As part of our commitment to providing financial transparency, any spend on goods and services over £500 with external suppliers are now listed online.
We are supported by a vast range of works and services from external suppliers and providers. Our objective is to obtain best value for the procurement of supplies and services for the Council. We aim to operate fair and open competition by following transparent and auditable procedures in all tendering and contracting activity.
If you would like to know more about the type of business conducted with these suppliers, please visit our Council Procurement Contacts page.
We will always try to be as transparent as we can but in some cases we will need to respect information that could be seen as commercially sensitive or where the payment relates to vulnerable young people or adults. Some of this information is withheld as it is personal data. For further information about personal data please visit the Privacy & Disclaimer Statement page.
We publish lists of individual payments (with a value over £500) to suppliers each month. These are provided in an easy and accessible format in order to for you to be able to find information on Dudley Council's expenditure.
This data is freely re-usable under the same terms as data.gov.uk.
Any FOI requests received in relation to these matters received prior to the next planned publication date will be refused using the exemption under Section 22 of the FOI Act as it is information that we hold with the intention of publishing at some future (pre-scheduled) date. The existing information available to you demonstrates that the Council has a process in place to regularly and routinely publish this information. The Council recognises that at times information outside of this routine publication may be requested and that the Council should be open and transparent in its operations and more up to date information may assist this. The information is, however, freely available on the Council’s website, and there is a statutory duty and timescale for publication. In accordance with the publication schedule quality and accuracy of information is checked. To provide information outside of this schedule may impede the process and potentially impact on the quality and accuracy of the material disclosed. As a consequence, having considered the balance of public interest in favour of both withholding and disclosing information, the Council considers that the arguments in favour of maintaining the exemption outweigh the arguments in favour of disclosing it.
If you require further information about any payments, please contact us using the form below setting out the details of the payment and the additional information you require.
