FOI 37-24: Software to to facilitate BACS payments 

Information Standards Freedom of Information Response

Our Ref: FOI 37-24

16 August 2024

Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Northern Ireland Assembly Commission (Assembly Commission) has processed your request dated 30 July 2024 under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA). In your request, you asked:

“Please may you provide me with:

1. What software you are currently using to facilitate BACS payments & what is the date of the renewal for this contract?

2. How much you are paying annually for this contract, and where do you advertise for this tender?”

Our response

1. The Assembly Commission does not use software to facilitate BACS payments.

2. As the Assembly Commission does not use software to facilitate BACS payments, this information is not held.

Further information

You have the right to request an internal review of this decision by the Assembly Commission.  If you wish to request such a review, please write to me at the above address.  If, after that review, you are dissatisfied with the way in which the Assembly Commission has handled your request for information, you may complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.

Your request for information and our response may be published in the disclosure log maintained by the Assembly Commission under a publication scheme agreed with the ICO. The request and our response will be anonymised. 

Yours sincerely

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