FOI reference - FOI-353
Date - 18 March 2025
Request
- What are the biggest challenges your organisation currently faces in surveying and geospatial activity?
- Are you confident in your full knowledge of the condition and knowledge of your impact on our local environment?
- What are your organisation's key strategic objectives for the next 12-24 months, and how does surveying and geospatial fit into these?
- Please detail any planned development of sites or assets.
- Do you have a supplier for drainage mapping and surveying?
- If so, please can you supply details of the contractual arrangements in place including date of award, details of any Framework used or link to the advertisement, contract value and duration.
- If not, please can you indicate what evaluation of the requirement for surveying and geospatial works have been undertaken?
- Please share your planned procurement pipeline for surveying and geospatial works for the next 12 months.
- How do you engage with potential new suppliers – through open tenders, direct engagement, or supplier days?
- Please can you confirm the individual responsible for managing your surveying and geospatial contracts or wider development contracts and provide their contact details and role title?
- Please provide a list of frameworks that you procure related services through.
- Do you plan to repurpose any sites for renewable energy or solar farms?
- Do you have any issues with subsidence in your properties? If so, where?
- When developing/purchasing/selling a site, how do you verify that the boundaries are correct?
Response
I confirm that we hold some of the information you have requested.
- Not relevant to TPR as an organisation renting 1.5 floors in a shared office.
- We have undertaken an assessment of our carbon footprint and have set out our plans for mitigation, which has been published on our website. We also have robust processes in place for assessing sustainability impacts that may arise through commercial tenders and change projects.
- Our Corporate Plan 2024 to 2027 sets out our direction for the next three years, explaining how we will protect savers' money, help to enhance the pensions system and support innovation in the interests of savers.
- We are a tenant in a multi tenanted office building, occupying 1.5 floors. This question is not relevant to us.
- The landlord of our office building would be responsible for this.
- N/A.
- The Landlord of our office building would be responsible for this.
- As above, we would not be running any procurement activity ourselves.
- We use government frameworks by default unless they are not fit for purpose and/or don’t represent value for money.
- We have no requirement for surveying and geospatial contracts.
- N/A, see above.
- As a tenant in a shared occupancy building, installation of renewables is not a viable option.
- We are a tenant in a multi tenanted building. This question would need to be directed to the Landlord.
- N/A – We have only ever leased office space.