FOI/202500492643 · FOI · partially withheld
Accountant in Bankruptcy tender process query: FOI release
Information requested
Evaluator reports, Q&A logs, or third-party input from tender process.
Any third-party input (e.g., scoring matrices, moderator notes) from PCS tender.
Response
An exemptions under section 33(1)(b) - substantial prejudice to commercial interests applies to some of the information you have requested.
This exemption applies because disclosure of this information would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of Dunedin Advisory Limited. Disclosing this information would be likely to give Dunedin's competitors an advantage in future similar tendering exercises, which would substantially prejudice their ability to submit competitive tenders and so could significantly harm their commercial business.
This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, I considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. I found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption for the reasons above.
Please see attached at Annex A the Q&A logs for the tender process.
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Detected exemption language
Response An exemptions under section 33(1)(b) - substantial prejudice to commercial interests applies to some of the information you have requested. This exemption applies because disclosure of this information would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the commercial interests of Dunedin Advisory Limited. This exemption is subject to the ‘public interest test’. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, I considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. I found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption for the reasons above.