12 February 2024
M Bel
[FYI request #25344 email]
Dear M
Thank you for your Official Information Act request received on 7 January 2024. You
requested:
On page 2 of the MBIE Pfizer Indemnity Business Case, signed off by the then
Minister of Finance it is stated that ...
four occasions:
o A 2016 APA with Seqirus Ltd (previously bioCSL and CSL), renewing a 2005 APA
with CSL for the supply of H5N1 pre-pandemic vaccine o A 2009 APA with Baxter
Healthcare Ltd for supply of pandemic flu vaccine o A 2007 contract with Baxter
Healthcare Ltd for the supply of 100,000 vaccination courses of H5N1 non-pandemic
vaccine."
My request is, please provide those four documents.
I have decided under section 15A of the Official Information Act to extend the time limit for
deciding on your request by an additional 10 working days. The new due date for responding
to your request is 27 February 2024.
The extension is required because of the consultations needed to make a decision on your
request. This extension wil also apply to the time limit for transferring your request, should this
become relevant.
Notwithstanding this extension, I undertake to make a decision on your request as soon as
reasonably practicable.
You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review this decision.
Yours sincerely
Hon Nicola Wil is
Minister of Finance