OFFICIAL

Ref: FOI30/183

Dear Zack,

 1. We refer to and acknowledge receipt of your email dated 30 October
2025 (below), in which you request access under the Freedom of
Information 1982 (Cth) ('FOI Act').
 2. The Bureau received your request on 30 October 2025. Section 15(5) of
the FOI Act provides the Bureau 30 days to provide you a decision on
your request. As the timeframe finally falls on a weekend, the
decision is due the following working day. This means the decision is
due by 1 December 2025.

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 3. We also write to request your agreement to remove from any documents
in scope of your request the following:

a.       signatures, initials, position titles and direct contact details
of non-senior officers of the Bureau (being non-SES staff below the
General Manager level);

b.      signatures, initials, and direct contact details of senior staff
(we note that where they appear the position titles of senior staff will
be released); and

c.       names (including any signatures or initials), position titles and
direct contact details of any third-parties.

 4. An agreement to remove the above information from scope of your
request would minimise privacy concerns.

Your response:

 5. We would be grateful for your response by reply email by close of
business Monday 17 November 2025 regarding:

• your agreement to exclude specific materials from the scope of your
request.

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OFFICIAL

-----Original Message-----
From: Zack <[12][FOI #13949 email]>
Sent: Thursday, 30 October 2025 2:11 PM
To: FOI <[13][BOM request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Payments to DigiCert & Setigo

 

Dear Bureau of Meteorology,

 

I request the invoices/receipts relating to payments to any of the
following: DigiCert; CyberTrust; GeoTrust; QuoVadis; RapidSSL; Thawte;
Mocana; Setigo; Comodo (Comodo CA); Xcitium

 

Timeframe 10 April 2024 to 10 May 2025

 

I request that any non-public commercial information is redacted from the
line items to resolve any commercial-in-confidence concerns, following the
rationale that if the name of a product is public, it no longer can be
considered commercially secret. (47G of the FOI Act)

 

Similarly if BoM paid the public list price for a product/service this
cannot be considered a commercial secret by definition. See OAIC FOI
Guidelines [5.192], which clarify that for information to be exempt under
s 47G of the FOI Act, it must have the necessary 'quality of confidence'
and not already be in the public domain or common knowledge.

 

However, in the case BoM paid above the public list price, I request this
is not redacted as disclosure of overpaying for a service/product would
inform debate on a matter of public importance and/or promote effective
oversight of public expenditure. Disclosure of potential overpayment is
essential for ensuring government accountability and the proper use of
public funds. See Besser and Department of Infrastructure and Transport
[2013] AICmr 19 (6 March 2013)

 

Yours faithfully,

 

Zack

 

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