16 June 2025
Charles Smith
[FYI request #31003 email]
Kia ora Charles
Your Official Information Act request, reference: GOV-040182
Thank you for your email of 17 May 2025, asking for the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
1.
A list of all contracts or engagements between ACC and PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers) from 1
january 2014 until 1 may 2025. Including:
a)
the purpose and scope of each engagement
b)
the total cost of each engagement
c)
the contract duration or period
d)
the method of procurement (open tender, closed, direct tender, etc)
2.
Copies of final reports, recommendations, or substantive deliverables produced by PwC under
these engagements, where not subject to commercial confidentiality.
3.
Any evaluations, reviews, or post implementation assessments conducted by ACC on the
effectiveness or outcomes of PwC work.
4.
Total expenditure by ACC on PwC consulting services, broken down by financial period over the
period January 1 2014 - May 1 2025.
On 22 May, we wrote to you to and asked you to narrow the scope of your request.
We noted that some information requested is contained within ACC’s written responses to Select
Committees since 2014, and provided you with links to these. We did not receive a response to our
invitation to narrow the scope of your request, and as such, we are responding to as it stands.
Our response
The answers to questions 1 b), c), d) and 4 are contained in the responses to Select Committees. As the
information is already publicly available, we are refusing your request for this information under section
18(d) of the Act.
The remainder of your request is for a large quantity of information that we cannot readily retrieve. As a
result, we are declining to provide the information requested in 1 a), 2 and 3 on the grounds that the
information requested cannot be made available without substantial collation or research. This
decision is made under section 18(f) of the Act.
We considered charging, or extending the response time so we could prepare a response for you.
However, we decided not to offer either of these options, as responding would still have unreasonably
interfered with ACC’s operations.
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If there is specific information you are looking for, or you would like information from a specific time
period, please feel free to make a refined request. We would then be able to consider whether we are
able to provide the information you are seeking.
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public
ACC may publish a copy of this response on ACC’s website. All requester data, including your name
and contact details, will be removed prior to release. The released response will be made available
www.acc.co.nz/resources/#/category/12. Please also view this page about making requests and our
published response
s https://www.acc.co.nz/contact/official-information-act-requests. If you have any questions about this response, please get in touch
You can email me at
[email address].
If you are not happy with this response, you can also contact the Ombudsman via
[email address] or by phoning 0800 802 602. Information about how to make a
complaint is available a
t www.ombudsman.parliament.nz. Ngā mihi
Christopher Johnston
Manager Official Information Act Services Government Engagement
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