8.11  Audit and Inspection

(a)  The Service Provider shall co-operate in audits and other statutory Best Value Duty inspections relating to the Service and, if requested by the Authority, acting reasonably, shall participate in any inspections or monitoring carried out. The obligation to respond to individual requests for assistance and reporting from the Authority shall be subject to the nature and volume of such requests being reasonable and proportionate to the prevailing circumstances and matters in issue.  The Service Provider shall be deemed to have accepted the reasonableness of an individual request for information from the Authority unless it has objected to the same in writing to the Authority within three (3) Business Days following receipt of that request on the grounds that it considers it to be disproportionate or otherwise unreasonable.