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Purchase order for ​Covid-19 testing kits (FOI)

Purchase order for ​Covid-19 testing kits (FOI)

Produced by the Freedom of Information office
Authored by Government of Jersey and published on 11 May 2020.
Prepared internally, no external costs.

Request

Please confirm when the order was placed for the initial 5,000 COVID-19 test kits. Please also provide (redacted if needs be) supporting evidence.

Response

The original invoice submitted to the supplier is attached. Information has been redacted in accordance with Article 25 (Personal Information) and Article 33 (Commercial Information) of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011.

We note that the invoice details the order for 500 units, each unit containing 10 tests.

Invoice for Covid-19 testing kits

Articles applied

Article 25 Personal information

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018.

(2) Information is absolutely exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is not the data subject as defined in the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018; and

(b) its supply to a member of the public would contravene any of the data protection principles, as defined in that Law.

(3) In determining for the purposes of this Article whether the lawfulness principle in Article 8(1)(a) of the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 would be contravened by the disclosure of information, paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 2 to that Law (legitimate interests) is to be read as if sub-paragraph (b) (which disapplies the provision where the controller is a public authority) were omitted.

Article 33 Commercial interests

Information is qualified exempt information if –

(a) it constitutes a trade secret; or

(b) its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information).

Prejudice / public interest test

Article 33 (b) allows an authority to refuse a request for information where its disclosure would, or would be likely to, prejudice the commercial interests of a person (including the scheduled public authority holding the information). Whilst we accept that the public may have an interest in the value of Government of Jersey contracts, we believe the values are commercially sensitive.

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