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: 2011/15581-02
Enquiries
: FOI Manager
Telephone : 08 6551 1125
Email
:
xxx@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx.xx
Attention: Mr Jake McNally
McNally Group
SENT BY EMAIL: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx
Dear Mr McNally
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION (FOI) APPLICATION
I refer to your email correspondence received on 19 June 2018 by the Department of
Finance (the Department) in which you requested to be given access to documents
stating as follows:
“… all the relevant documentation submitted by the tenderer for modular school
transportable building tenders won and awarded to Quality Builders in WA for the year
2017 January thru to December.
In particular Tender no's 2017/01628, 2017/01627 and 2017/04248, notwithstanding
any others that may have been awarded in the above period.”
Please note that your access application does not meet the requirements for a valid
application under the Western Australian
Freedom of Information Act 1992 (‘the FOI
Act’). To accept an access application as valid, the FOI Act requires that:
the application be in writing;
give enough information to enable the requested documents to be identified;
give an address in Australia to which notices under this Act can be sent;
give any other information or details required under the regulations; and
be lodged at an office of the agency with any application fee payable under
the regulations.
In view of these requirements, the following is required from you before the Department
can accept your access application as valid:
a.
Provide an Australian address – please note that this should be a physical
address, not a postal office box address;
and
Locked Bag 11 Cloisters Square Western Australia 6850
Telephone (08) 6551 1000 Facsimile (08) 6551 1111
www.finance.wa.gov.au
b.
Pay the application fee of $30 which applies to applications for access to
documents of non-personal nature –you can do this online by making your
payment to the following bank account:
Commonwealth Bank
Account name: Department of Finance Operating
BSB: 066-040
Account: 15000406
Please use “FOI” as your reference when making the payment.
The Department is unable to commence processing your access application under the
FOI Act until it meets the requirements outlined in this letter.
If you have any questions in relation to the above, please do not hesitate to contact us
on 08 6551 1125 or email
xxx@xxxxxxx.xx.xxx.xx .
Yours sincerely
Freedom of Information Manager
20 June 2018