FOI Request 2274

Subject: Use of Business-Intelligence, Credit-Reference and Company-Data Products

Status: Complete

Date received: January 2026


Question Asked:

Please treat this as a request for information under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.

I would like to request information about the business-intelligence, company-information and credit-reference products used by your organisation, as follows,

1. Products used since 1 January 2022

Please confirm whether your organisation currently uses, or has used at any point since 1 January 2022, any of the following products:

  • Endole

  • Beauhurst

  • Dun & Bradstreet (D&B)

  • Creditsafe

  • Experian Business

  • Equifax Business

  • TransUnion (UK Commercial Data & Credit Risk)

  • Company Check (Creditsafe group)

  • DueDil / FullCircl

  • Artesian

  • GlobalDatabase

  • Bureau van Dijk - Orbis / Fame (Moody’s)

  • Plimsoll Analysis

  • Kompass

  • Crunchbase

  • PitchBook

  • S&P Capital IQ / Market Intelligence

  • Graydon UK

  • Red Flag Alert

  • The Data City

For each product used, please provide:

a) Product name

b) Whether it is currently in use (Yes/No)

c) Main purpose(s) for which it is used

2. Contract Information

For each product identified above, please provide the following where held:

a. Supplier / vendor name

b. Contract reference number

c. Contract start date

d. Contract end date

e. Net renewal or break date

f. Contract value (annual or total)

g. Procurement route used (e.g., CCS framework name and lot, tender, direct award)

If any commercial information is withheld under Section 43, please still provide the non-exempt data, including start date, end date, supplier name, and procurement route.

3. Internal ownership

For each product currently in use, please provide:

a. Job title (not the name) of the person responsible for the product

b. The department or team that manages it

4. Past products no longer used

Where a product listed above was used after 1 January 2022 but is no longer in use, please provide:

a. Product name

b. Contract start date

c. Contract end date

d. Contract value (annual or total)


Our Response

Please see our response below to your Freedom of Information Request.

Section 21 of the Freedom of Information Act permits authorities to apply an exemption where information is already reasonably accessible. Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service relies on this exemption to ensure proper use of public money, we are not obliged to under the Act to provide any information that is already publicly available.

As sell2 shows contracts whether live/current or expired, the following should answer this question;

Contracts

If Cheshire Fire & Rescue Service have a contract in place, or have had a contract in place since 2022, this information is publicly available on the following public contract database, you can view by clicking the following link:

Sell2

You can search contracts by name and filter in order to see contracts for Cheshire Fire Authority only, then select a contract to view the details.

Spend

Invoices paid over £500 are published on Cheshire Fire Authority’s website each month, you can view by clicking the following link:

Transparency


Outcome: Referred to Website

FOI responded to within timescales: YES

Further action: NO

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Last updated: Thursday, 5 February 2026


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