Procurement Documentation C19 Vaccine Purchases
M Bell made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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From: M Bell
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
Please provide the following documents:
• The procurement strategy(s) and or procurement plan(s) that were utilized in the procurement for the Covid-19 Vaccines (individually or collectively).
• The document endorsing / authorizing deviations from the government procurement guidelines for the purchase of Covid-19 Vaccines (individually or collectively).
• The procurement recommendations made to govt subsequent to negotiations with the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers prior to purchase (individually or collectively).
Yours faithfully,
M Bell
From: Ministerial Services
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Ref: 2324-0560
Dear M Bell,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 8 Sepetmeber 2023 requesting under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:
‘Please provide the following documents:
• The procurement strategy(s) and or procurement plan(s) that were
utilized in the procurement for the Covid-19 Vaccines (individually or
collectively).
• The document endorsing / authorizing deviations from the government
procurement guidelines for the purchase of Covid-19 Vaccines (individually
or collectively).
• The procurement recommendations made to govt subsequent to
negotiations with the Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers prior to purchase
(individually or collectively).’
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and no
later than 6 October 2023, being 20 working days after the day your
request was received. If we are unable to respond to your request by then,
we will notify you of an extension of that timeframe.
If you have any enquiries regarding your request feel free to contact us
via email to [1][MBIE request email].
Nâku noa, nâ
Ministerial Services
Corporate, Governance and Information | Ngâ Pou o te Taumaru
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | P O Box 1473 Wellington 6140
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From: *OIA
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Good evening M Bell,
Please see attached for MBIE’s extension letter to your Official
Information Act request.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Lisa Seng (she/her)
Project Co-ordinator
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MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT / HIKINA WHAKATUTUKI
PO Box 1473 Wellington
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Good evening M Bell,
Please see attached for MBIE’s response to your Official Information Act
request.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Lisa Seng (she/her)
Project Co-ordinator
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MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT / HIKINA WHAKATUTUKI
PO Box 1473 Wellington
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From: M Bell
Dear Lisa, and Simon,
I was asking for the actual procurement documents, not the already available summary information or the auditor general report which I have already seen. Please provide the actual documents (understand there will likely be redactions where valid).
Also the attachment of the briefing documents cannot be downloaded, I have tried this multiple different times on different devices, below is a paste of one of the error messages. The reply letter is accessible, but not the attachment. Can you please rectify and reload?
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An error occurred during a connection to fyi.org.nz.
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
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Yours sincerely,
M Bell
From: M Bell
Dear *OIA,
Still waiting for the documents, still waiting for an actual response to my reminder on November 4.
Will wait for the remainder of today for a response and intend to lodge a complaint to the ombudsman if none is made.
Yours sincerely,
M Bell
From: *OIA
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Good evening M Bell,
Our apologies for not acknowledging your email of 04 November 2023.
There is not a "procurement plan" as you have described, but we have identified an additional document that may provide you with some of the information you are seeking, and we are currently consulting other agencies on it release.
We will provide this to you before Friday 22 December.
I have re-attached the file to this email thread. Do let me know if this works or not.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Lisa Seng (she/her)
Project Co-ordinator
MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT / HIKINA WHAKATUTUKI
PO Box 1473 Wellington
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From: M Bell
Thanks Lisa, the linked file downloads nicely.
I find it strange that there would be no procurement plan, but as a minimum a procurement strategy would have been approved and in place. The auditor general's review on the C19 rollout refers to the government developing such a procurement strategy and that it was developed and implemented etc. Possibly this was provided to MBIE from another agency?
Is the other document you have identified the business case on the indemnity provision that was provided to the treasury by MBIE? If not can I also have that document please?
Yours sincerely,
M Bell
From: *OIA
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Hello M Bell,
Response to your email back on 06 December 2023:
We can confirm that no single document was created as a procurement plan,
but rather that procurement documentation occurs over a series of
documents with Ministers and Cabinet. The document we intend to provide
you is entitled "Framework to guide vaccine purchase decisions". This
provides some detail in addition to what is in the proactively released
briefing paper "[1]COVID-19 Vaccine Strategy - Purchasing Strategy and
funding envelope" of 10 July 2020, and the Cabinet paper "[2]COVID-19
Vaccine Strategy: Purchasing Strategy and Funding Options
(CAB-20-MIN-0382) of 10 August 2020" which provide much of the key
strategic content that would normally appear in a procurement plan.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Lisa Seng (she/her)
Project Co-ordinator
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MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT / HIKINA WHAKATUTUKI
PO Box 1473 Wellington
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From: M Bell
Thanks Lisa for the response so far,
Interesting that there was no specific procurement plan. So apparently there was however a business case produced by MBIE on the indemnity provision. Hence as per my reply on Dec 6 can I please have the the business case on the indemnity provision that was provided to the treasury by MBIE?
Yours sincerely,
M Bell
From: M Bell
Hi Lisa
Following up on this, you mentioned a further document to release....
"The document we intend to provide you is entitled "Framework to guide vaccine purchase decisions"
Could you please append that document to the response to close this request off?
Yours sincerely,
M Bell
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Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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Good evening M Bell,
Please see attached for MBIE’s letter to your Official Information Act
request.
Apologies for this late information release.
Kind regards,
Lisa
Lisa Seng (she/her)
Project Co-ordinator
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Description: Description: cid:image001.jpg@01CD1D45.D6A244C0
MINISTRY OF BUSINESS INNOVATION & EMPLOYMENT / HIKINA WHAKATUTUKI
PO Box 1473 Wellington
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