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Contract between Government and vaccine suppliers

Requested from DOH by K. Doering at 07:28 PM on Jul 12, 2022.
Purpose: Transparency
Date of Coverage: 07/12/2022 - 07/12/2022
Tracking no: #DOH-133958445711

Doering 07:28 PM, Jul 12, 2022 

Good day! Follow-up on #DOH-190835822605. While it might be true that there has been no procurement, the government paid for the vaccines, right? 

What are the conditions (price etc.) that the government agreed to pay? Please send me the agreements for each vaccine supplier.

Receiving Officer 08:13 AM, Jul 13, 2022 

July 13, 2022

Dear Kai,

Thank you for your request dated Jul 12, 2022 under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch, for Contract between Government and vaccine suppliers.

We received your request on Jul 12, 2022 and will respond on or before Aug 02, 2022 07:28:25 PM, in accordance with the Executive Order's implementing rules and regulations.

Should you have any questions regarding your request, kindly contact me using the reply function on the eFOI portal at https://zcwdv320190208-dot-efoi-ph.appspot.com/requests/aglzfmVmb2ktcGhyHQsSB0NvbnRlbnQiEERPSC0xMzM5NTg0NDU3MTEM, for request with ticket number #DOH-133958445711.

Thank you.

Respectfully,

FOI Receiving Officer
FOI Officer

Maker 03:02 PM, Jul 19, 2022 

Dear Kai Doering

Please be advised that we sent your request to the DOH Legal Service for action. Kindly await for their response, thank you


We regret to inform you that we shall not provide the information requested as the request is confidential in nature. 

Executive Order No. 2 s. 2016 dated November 24, 2016 provide exceptions on the Freedom of Information, thus:

"5. Information, documents or records known by reason of official capacity and are deemed as confidential, including those submitted or disclosed by entities to government agencies, tribunals, boards or officers, in relation to the performance of their functions, or to inquiries or investigation conducted by them in the exercise of their administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial powers;"

This was compounded by Memorandum Circular No. 89 (Updating the Inventory of Exceptions to the Right to Access of Information under Executive Order No. 2 s. 2016:

"5. Information, documents or records known by reason of official capacity and are deemed as confidential, including those submitted or disclosed by entities to government agencies, tribunals, boards or officers, in relation to the performance of their functions, or to inquiries or investigation conducted by them in the exercise of their administrative, regulatory or quasi-judicial powers, such as but not limited to the following:

a. Trade Secrets, intellectual property, business, commercial, financial and other proprietary information"

Based on the foregoing, documents known by reason of official capacity are deemed confidential. The contents of the documents requested contains trade secrets intellectual property, business, commercial, financial and other proprietary information that qualifies the information as exempt from the FOI Requirement

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