WELLINGTON
The Customhouse, 1 Hinemoa Street, Wellington
PO Box 2218, Wellington 6140
Phone: 04 901 4500 Fax: 04 901 4555 Al general enquiries phone: 0800 428 786
Email: [email address] Website: www.customs.govt.nz
5 July 2023
Ref: OIA 23-187
Mr Shane Gibson
Via the FYI website
By email:
[FYI request #22736 email] Tēnā koe Mr Gibson
Request for information under the Official Information Act
Thank you for your email dated 9 May 2023, to New Zealand Customs Service (Customs),
received via the FYI website, requesting the following information under the Official
Information Act 1982 (the Act):
“I would like an extract of the annual amount spent with all suppliers for the 2021/2022
financial year.
I would like this data in an open format, csv or json formats would be suitable.
I would like the following details provided:
- Supplier Name
- Suppliers NZBN number (if available)
- Total Amount Spent
Please provide the GST Exclusive amount spent.”
In response to your request for the amount spent by Customs with suppliers, please find
attached a document titled ‘
Appendix one - amount spent with all suppliers for the 2021/2022
financial year’ which provides you with an extract of the annual amount spent by Customs with
all suppliers for the 2021/22 financial year.
Due to the level of substantial collation and research that would be required to identify any
supplier’s details that may need to be withheld due to the commercial sensitivity of the
information, Customs has provided the response to you broken into the following three
categories to avoid refusing your request under section 18(f) of the Act:
• Suppliers that have been paid over $1m in the 2021/22 financial year:
o Supplier names
o INBZ Number (if available)
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o Total amount spent for range (GST exclusive)
• Suppliers that have been paid between $0.500 mil ion and $1 mil ion in the
2021/22 financial year:
o Supplier names
o INBZ Number (if available)
o Total amount spent for range (GST exclusive)
• Suppliers that have been paid between $0.100 mil ion and $0.500 million in the
2021/22 financial year:
o Supplier names
o INBZ Number (if available)
o Total amount spent for range (GST exclusive)
• Suppliers that have been paid under $100,000 in the 2021/22 financial year:
o Supplier names
o INBZ Number (if available)
o Total amount spent for range (GST exclusive).
Please note that the information in the attached document excludes employee expense claims
and payments for Customs MasterCard transactions, as these are not considered direct
‘suppliers’.
Some information in the attached document has been withheld under section 6(a) of the Act,
where making available the information would be likely to prejudice New Zealand’s defence,
security or international relations, and section 6(c) of the Act, where making available the
information would be likely to prejudice the maintenance of the law, including the prevention,
investigation, and detection of offences, and the right to a fair trial.
You have the right, by way of complaint to the Of ice of the Ombudsman under section 28(3) of
the Act, to seek an investigation and review of this response. Information about how to make a
complaint is available online at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.nz, or you can phone 0800 802
602.
If you have any queries in relation to this response, please contact the Correspondence,
Reviews and Ministerial Servicing team at:
[email address].
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Please note that Customs proactively releases responses to Official Information Act requests
on our website. As such, we may publish this response on our website after we have sent it to
you. Your name and contact details wil be removed.
Nā māua noa, nā
Greg Hanlen
Chief Financial Officer
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