SARs Partial Outsourcing & STAIRs Capacity Creation
Aster Group LimitedSouth West
What the buyer wrote
Partial outsourcing of Subject Access Request (SAR) processing to provide additional Information Governance capacity ahead of the STAIRs regime under the Social Housing (Regulation) Act. The supplier will provide AI/OCR-enabled deduplication and redaction (100GB processing) and structured human review (540 hours), with explanations of exemptions applied. Aster keeps customer engagement, decision-making and disclosure. This is a capacity-based service intended to run until 31 March 2027, while Aster gathers benchmarking data and considers a future competitive procurement.
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- What the buyer calls it
- SARs Partial Outsourcing & STAIRs Capacity Creation
- How they are buying
- Given to one supplier, no competitionNobody else was asked, and the buyer has to be able to justify that.
- Where
- in the South West
- Kind of work
- Housing management and repairs
Who the buyer named
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