OIA 19-E-0016
18 January 2019
Alex Harris
[FYI request #9356 email]
Dear Alex
OFFICIAL INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
Thank you for your Official Information Act request to the Department of Conservation, dated
9 January 2019. You requested the following:
* whether your agency has ever employed ZX Security Ltd, to provide training in social media
or open source intelligence. For the avoidance of doubt, I am not interested in any work done
by them on network security or penetration testing.
* If so, all information relating to, or provided by, ZX Security Ltd in relation to the above.
Please find below the information you have requested.
The Department is required to keep financial records for a period of at least seven years after
the period to which they relate. Accordingly, please find below the information you have
requested from 1 July 2011:
No payments have been made from the Departmental or Crown bank accounts to ZX
Security Ltd from 1 July 2011 to 31 December 2018.
You are entitled to seek an investigation and review of my decision by writing to an
Ombudsman as provided by section 28 (3) Official Information Act.
Yours sincerely
Katrina Nowlan
Director, Finance
Department of Conservation Te Papa Atawhai
Whare Kaupapa Atawhai / Conservation House
PO Box 10420, Wellington 6143,
www.doc.govt.nz
DOC-5685271
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