J Floyd
[FYI request #25017 email]
21 February 2024
Dear J Floyd,
OIA 23-24-29: External Pre-Feasibility Thank you for your email of 4 December 2023 to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise (NZTE),
making a request under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act). You requested the following
information:
Please provide a list of external work completed using funding under the NZTE Investment
"pre-feasibility" funding, including the date, the provider of the work, description of the work and
the cost.
Answers to your questions are as follows.
NZTE helps businesses raise growth capital and matches investors with investment
opportunities that benefit New Zealand.
As part of this work, NZTE commissions “pre-feasibility” activity to assess investible subsectors
in cases where:
• Preliminary studies are required to determine if a concept is worth to proceed to
feasibility stage
• To provide data or research that will benefit multiple sponsors.
To determine if pre-feasibility funding is appropriate NZTE will consider the following:
• The pre-feasibility will be of benefit to a wide range of parties
• If there are multiple government agencies involved in the investible subsector then the
pre-feasibility study should be co-funded.
A pre-feasibility study can be undertaken if there is potential for the project to lead to one of the
following outcomes:
• Supports the development of regional objectives and opportunities
• Drives structural transformation of the economy or diversification
• Is key to raising new technology and knowledge use in firms and sectors
• Has the potential to stimulate a region through the creation of high value jobs
• Drives productive use of land to a more optimal level.
A record of payments made for “pre-feasibility” is below (please note, where multiple payments
are made on the same project NZTE has included the date of the first payment).
In instances where a company that NZTE consulted with objected to the information being
released because of its commercially sensitive nature or the company has not made a
response to consultation within the timeframe of this OIA request, we have withheld the
information under section 9(2)(b)(ii) of the Official Information Act - “the making available of that
information would be likely to unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of the person
who supplied or who is subject of the information.” This information has been grouped together
at the bottom of the table along with the total cost.
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Date
Vendor
Purpose
Amount
16/10/2017
Indufor Asia Pacific
Central North Island Pulpwood
$98,965
Limited
and Residue Supply-Demand
Study
19/10/2017
International Data
IDC Datacentre report-
$9,000
Corporation Pty Ltd
investigating potential data centre
growth opportunities
22/11/2017
Coriolis Ltd
Value added dairy- global market
$89,800
analysis
25/05/2018
Priority One Western
Feasibility of an aquarium built in
$16,087
Bay of Plenty Inc
Tauranga as a tourism attraction
11/06/2018
Andrew Prest &
Investigate the NZ F&B industry
$50,000
Associates/Sustainability
to determine the products and
Systems
ingredients that have significant
by-products and waste
11/07/2018
Select Contracts
Market Analysis and Penetration
$25,000
report for TaTa Valley
21/08/2018
Greenstone Group Ltd
Volumetric Housing - Australia vs
$22,000
New Zealand comparison
6/01/2019
Frost and Sullivan
Glasshouse Industry Market
$34,000
Study
25/09/2019
Prime Consulting
Potato Processing Feasibility
$21,525
International
Study
14/10/2019
Olsberg SPI
Film industry analysis
$50,000
30/10/2019
Forest Economic
Identify Growth Opportunities for
$29,223
Advisors LLC
New Zealand in Processed Wood
Export Markets
12/01/2020
Mogul Limited
Development of Tourism
$4,209
opportunities in the Wairakei
precinct and wider Taupo region
20/1/2020
Envirostrat Ltd
Open Ocean Aquaculture -
$20,950
Aquaculture sector development
7/03/2021
Bruce Scott Barrister
Legislative scope- Aquaculture
$12,500
sector development
14/12/2021
Analysys Mason Pte Ltd
Data Centres: Sector Insights and $41,538
Competitive Landscape Analysis
28/02/2022
Cawthron Institute
Seaweed Farming Literature
$50,700
Review
1/03/2022
Springdom Ltd
Sheep Milk Market Scan
$20,000
11/07/2022
Energybank
Feasibility Study of Deep Ocean
$50,000
Gravitational Energy Storage
11/07/2022
Coriolis Ltd
Alternative Protein Sector Review
$85,000
23/06/2023
PricewaterhouseCoopers Offshore wind capability mapping
$76,301
Consulting (New
Zealand) LP
23/06/2023
Air New Zealand Limited
SAF Feasibility Studies
$170,000
28/06/2023
BlueFloat NZ Holdings
Collaborative study on the impact
$70,000
GP Limited
of the offshore wind industry for
NZ
19 pre-feasibility
$529,607
projects are being
withheld under section
9(2)(b)(ii) of the Official
Information Act- the
making available of
that information would
be likely to
unreasonably prejudice
the commercial
position of the person
who supplied or who is
the subject of the
information
You have the right under section 28(3) of the Act to seek an investigation and review by the
Ombudsman. Information about how to make a complaint is available at:
www.ombudsman.parliament.govt.nz or freephone: 0800 802 602.
Yours sincerely
Melissa Trochon
Director – Board & Ministerial
