Advance Purchase Agreements for Covid-19 Vaccines
Catherine Jamieson made this Official Information request to Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
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From: Catherine Jamieson
Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,
Please specify for each company New Zealand has Advance Purchase Agreements to purchase Covid-19 vaccines:
i)The date the initial APA was signed and for how many doses of each vaccine; and
ii)The date any further APAs were signed or the initial APA was amended and for how many doses
For each of i) and ii) above please specify whether the APA/amendment was structured as an option or an obligation to buy that number of doses. Please also make clear in relation to Pfizer BioNTech products the vaccine type (eg adult monovalent purple cap, Adult monovalent grey cap, paediatric, infant, Bivalent, XBB)
Yours faithfully,
Catherine Jamieson
From: NoReplyMinisterialServices
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
Kia ora Catherine Jamieson,
On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 21/01/2025 requesting, under the Official
Information Act 1982, the following:
Please specify for each company New Zealand has Advance Purchase
Agreements to purchase Covid-19 vaccines:
i)The date the initial APA was signed and for how many doses of each
vaccine; and
ii)The date any further APAs were signed or the initial APA was amended
and for how many doses
For each of i) and ii) above please specify whether the APA/amendment was
structured as an option or an obligation to buy that number of doses.
Please also make clear in relation to Pfizer BioNTech products the vaccine
type (eg adult monovalent purple cap, Adult monovalent grey cap,
paediatric, infant, Bivalent, XBB)
We will endeavour to respond to your request as soon as possible, and no
later than 19/02/2025, 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].
Nāku noa, nā
Ministerial Services
Strategy and Assurance
Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington 6011 | P O Box 1473 Wellington 6140
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