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Amazon and Salesforce's Covid Vaccination Register and Amazon's Wider investment Plans

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From: Matariki Monahan

To the Ministry of Health,

This is a request under the Official Information Act.

(1) What considerations were given to Amazon and its consortium of partners, including Salesforce's, wider investment plans for Aotearoa-New Zealand when the Ministry of Health decided to buy a Covid vaccination register management system from them; a decision that required the cancelation of the Ministry's existing relationship with the homegrown Orion Health, which built and continues to maintain the country's existing National Immunisation Register (NIR)?

Please provide copies of all correspondence concerning the Covid vaccination register with:

(a) Minister Stuart Nash or his officials in any capacity;

(b) Orion Health's Ian McCrae;

(c) Amazon;

(d) Salesforce;

(c) Deloitte;

(d) the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet or the Prime Minister's office;

(c) any other Ministries, or government departments or units, or Ministers and their officials;

(d) any other pecuniary interest;

(d) and any other interested parties,

prior to, during, and after the tendering process for the Covid vaccination register management system that mentions Amazon or their partners' investment plans for New Zealand, being careful to provide any correspondence, as well as any reports, opinions - and any other documentation in any form that makes reference to Amazon's movie production business, or the Lord of the Rings even if only as a quip or allusion - and, otherwise, any and all other references to both Amazon and Salesforce's wider investment plans for the country.

Yours faithfully,

Matariki Monahan

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Kia ora Matariki

Thank you for your request for official information received on 14 August
2021 for:

"(1) What considerations were given to Amazon and its consortium of
partners, including Salesforce's, wider investment plans for Aotearoa-New
Zealand when the Ministry of Health decided to buy a Covid vaccination
register management system from them; a decision that required the
cancelation of the Ministry's existing relationship with the homegrown
Orion Health, which built and continues to maintain the country's existing
National Immunisation Register (NIR)?
Please provide copies of all correspondence concerning the Covid
vaccination register with:
(a) Minister Stuart Nash or his officials in any capacity;
(b) Orion Health's Ian McCrae;
(c) Amazon;
(d) Salesforce;
(c) Deloitte;
(d) the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet or the Prime Minister's
office;
(c) any other Ministries, or government departments or units, or Ministers
and their officials;
(d) any other pecuniary interest;
(d) and any other interested parties,
prior to, during, and after the tendering process for the Covid
vaccination register management system that mentions Amazon or their
partners' investment plans for New Zealand, being careful to provide any
correspondence, as well as any reports, opinions - and any other
documentation in any form that makes reference to Amazon's movie
production business, or the Lord of the Rings even if only as a quip or
allusion - and, otherwise, any and all other references to both Amazon and
Salesforce's wider investment plans for the country."

The Ministry's reference number for your request is: H202110508

As required under the Official Information Act 1982, the Ministry will
endeavour to respond to your request no later than 13 September 2021,
being 20 working days after the day your request was received.  

If we are unable to respond to your request within this time frame, we
will notify you of an extension of that time frame.

If you have any queries related to this request, please do not hesitate to
get in touch.

Ngā mihi

OIA Services
Government Services
Office of the Director-General
Ministry of Health
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Kia ora Matariki

Please find attached a letter regarding your request for information.

Ngā mihi

 

OIA Services Team

 

[1]Ministry of Health information releases

[2]Unite against COVID-19

 

 

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