Ref: 2223-0593

 

Dear J Bruning,

 

On behalf of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment I
acknowledge your email of 22^nd September 2022 requesting under the
Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following:

 

‘(1) Please supply all advice, reports and memos including risk updates
from strategy and management consultancy firms including but not limited
to: PWC/Deloitte/Boston Consulting Group/McKinsey -Supplied to the MBIE
from November 2019 to April 1 2022 relating to COVID-19 pandemic.

 

This includes, but is not limited to, information and advice in the form
of reports, memos and appendices from contracted and non-contracted firms.

 

This includes but is not limited to:

- Risk strategy relating to virus, population management.

- Unite Against COVID-19 campaign development and deployment.

- Data and research recommendations

- Vaccine strategy

- Passport and Unite against COVID-19 campaign

- Behavioural data insights to ensure campaign goals were achieved

 

(2) Please identify and provide details of costs paid to - including but
not limited to: PWC/Deloitte/Boston Consulting Group/McKinsey - from
November 2019 to April 1 2022 relating to COVID-19 pandemic for COVID-19
and related services.’

 

 

Your request is being processed in accordance with the Act and a response
will be sent to you in due course.

 

If you have any enquiries regarding your request, or its urgency, feel
free to contact us via email at [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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Tēnā koe J Bruning

We refer to your email of 22 September 2022 to the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) requesting, under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act), the following information:

1. Please supply all advice, reports and memos including risk updates from strategy and management consultancy firms including but not limited to: PWC/Deloitte/Boston Consulting Group/McKinsey -Supplied to the MBIE from November 2019 to April 1 2022 relating to COVID-19 pandemic.

This includes, but is not limited to, information and advice in the form of reports, memos and appendices from contracted and non-contracted firms.

This includes but is not limited to:

a. Risk strategy relating to virus, population management.
b. Unite Against COVID-19 campaign development and deployment.
c. Data and research recommendations
d. Vaccine strategy
e. Passport and Unite against COVID-19 campaign
f. Behavioural data insights to ensure campaign goals were achieved

2. Please identify and provide details of costs paid to - including but not limited to: PWC/Deloitte/Boston Consulting Group/McKinsey - from November 2019 to April 1 2022 relating to COVID-19 pandemic for COVID-19 and related services.

Extension

The Act requires that we advise you of our decision on your request no later than 20 working days after the day we received your request. It will not be possible to meet that time limit and we are therefore writing to notify you of an extension of the time to make our decision, to Monday 19 December 2022.

This extension is necessary because your request is necessitates a search through a large quantity of information and meeting the original time limit would unreasonably interfere with our operations. Given that we have identified some documents that may fall in scope, the consultations necessary (both with the named consultancy firms, and with other agencies) to make a decision on your request are such that a proper response cannot reasonably be made within the original time limit.

A realistic estimation of workload constraints upon certain teams has been taken into account when calculating the above timeframe.

Please note that MBIE is focusing its search(es) and collation on the four named consultancy firms in your request, as well as the topics you have specified. We also consider that the final report/end document that MBIE has tasked a consultancy firm to produce is the relevant in-scope material for this request.

If you have any issues or questions with any of the above, please do get in touch with our Ministerial Services team at [MBIE request email].

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

Nāku noa, nā

Ministerial Services
Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services
Ngā Pou o te Taumaru

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Tçnâ koe J Bruning

Please find attached the response to your below request for official information, which was received by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on 22 September 2022.

In the response letter, we have provided links to MBIE’s three most recent Annual Reviews. For your quick reference, we have also pasted the links below in this email, below the email signature.

You have the right to seek an investigation and review by the Ombudsman of this decision. Information about how to make a complaint is available at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or freephone 0800 802 602.

Ngâ mihi

Ministerial Services
Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services
Email: [MBIE request email]

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
www.mbie.govt.nz

1. 2021/22 Response to Written Questions – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...
2. 2021/22 Contractor and Consultant Appendix – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...
3. 2020/21 Response to Written Questions – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...
4. 2020/21 Contractor and Consultant Appendix – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...
5. 2019/20 Response to Written Questions – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...
6. 2019/20 Contractor and Consultant Appendix (see page 96 for Appendix 21, Question 68) – www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...

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Tēnā koe J Bruning

Thank you for flagging that, and apologies for the incorrect link there.

The correct link for the 2020/21 Annual Review Response to Written Questions is here:
www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/53SCED_...

We have also erased the incorrect link in the thread below and pasted the correct one in its place.

Ngā mihi

Ministerial Services
Engagement, Communications and Ministerial Services
Email: [MBIE request email]

Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment
15 Stout Street, Wellington Central, Wellington 6011
PO Box 1473, Wellington 6140
www.mbie.govt.nz

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