Information Commissioner's Office

Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group

11 May 2016, Health (NHS)

The complainant has requested various documents relating to the decision to award a contract for elective care services. The public authority aggregated parts of the request as it would exceed the cost limit to respond but did disclose some information with redactions made under section 43(2) as well as withholding scoring information and tender documents under this exemption. The Commissioner’s decision is that the public authority has correctly applied section 43(2) to the withheld information and the balance of the public interest lies in maintaining the exemption. He requires no steps to be taken.  

FOI 43: Not upheld