FOI release

Freedom of Information request (FOI 22/835)

Published 17 January 2024

18th August 2022

FOI 22/835 – same response for FOI 22/871 and FOI 22/851

Dear ,

Thank you for your information request, dated 20 July 2022.

The response is made for the following Advisory Bodies run by the MHRA - Advisory Board on the Registration of Homoeopathic -Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee -The Review Panel -Independent Scientific Advisory Committee for MHRA data Research -Medicines Industry Liaison Group -Innovation Office -Blood Consultative Committee -Devices Expert Advisory Committee.

This is the same answer to your other requests to FOI 22/851 (addressed to the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee) and FOI 22/871  (addressed to the MHRA on 5th August) - and we will not therefore provide separate responses to those requests.

Please find the response to FOI 22/835 below:

1 . What services are included in the contract(s)? (e.g. printing vs scanning etc) – MFD Managed Print Service

2 . Which supplier is delivering them? (If in-house, please confirm or if multiple provider please identify them) - Canon

3 . How many contracts does this entail and what’s the award value for each? – 1 contract - £~25k

4 . When do these contracts expire and do they have any extensions? – 31st August 2022

5 . What is the annual volumetric data (split by Annual Mono and Annual Colour print)? – Total Mono – 448,520 ; Total Colour – 200,384

6 . What is the total number of devices supplied? - 30

7 . What Managed Print Service software solution do you use? - UniFLOW Output Manager.

8 . How many Mono MFDs and Colour MFDs do you have? – total 30 MFD’s multi print

9 . What document management solution do you use? – No document management solution linked to MFD’s

10 . What High Volume printing devices do you use? - IR-ADV 8285 PRO

11 . Were any framework agreements used to procure the goods/services? If so, which ones? - RM3781

12 . Any documentation you can provide me with, e.g. the order form – published on contract finder

13 . What department is managing the contract and who’s the decision-maker? – All contracts are managed by the Agency’s IT Commercial Management Team which can be contacted via our shared mailbox  [email protected]

14 . How many Adobe Acrobat (standard, professional and reader) licenses do you have? – standard / reader - ~1400; professional - ~460

15 . What is the annual cost? - N/A

16 . When is the renewal date? – N/A

17 . Who is responsible for the contract? – N/A

18 . Do you use any other PDF editing tools? – No

This is the same answer to your other requests to FOI 22/851 (addressed to the Herbal Medicines Advisory Committee) and FOI 22/871  (addressed to the MHRA on 5th August) - and we will NOT therefore provide separate responses to those requests.

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Yours sincerely

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