Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2015 14:05:37 +1000
Subject: New Request for Information - Government Information (Public Access) request - Request for Westconnex contracts
From: GIPA/Right to Information and Privacy Office <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx>
To: Informationmanager <xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx>

Afternoon Staff,

The following email was received in Sydney Trains as is being forwarded for your consideration.

Regards
Jenie Kocanovski
Access Compliance Officer
Information and Privacy
Sydney Trains

T 02 8922 1313 E xxxxx.xxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx.xxx.xx
Level 21, 477 Pitt Street Sydney NSW 2000
  

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From: Wendy Bacon [mailto:xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx.xx]
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2015 2:02 PM
To: GIPA/Right to Information and Privacy Office
Subject: Government Information (Public Access) request - Request for Westconnex contracts

Dear Transport for NSW,
Attention Mary Kington
GIPA officer

I wish to apply for information or documents containing the details of all contracts let by Westconnex (under the name Westconnex, Westconnex Delivery Authority WDA, RMS or any other entity) aside from Class 3 contracts.

This information should include

1) all contracts above $150,000 which are published on the NSW Trade and Investment site for a period and then taken down

2) all contracts of less than $150,000. Some of these were previously released under GIPA to Mehreen Faruqi MLC. I want the same details for these contracts as for 1) above.

I need this information in digital form not in hard copy.

I have tried ringing both you and Alison Macris at WDA to see if I can supply my credit card details over the phone for the $30 deposit. Please let me know prompty how I can do this.

In refusing my informal request Alison Macris as conveyed to me that staff are off the view that the information I seek will need to be extracted from a database and that this will cost money.

Since it seems that in principle the WDA agrees that this information should be publicly available, please deal with this request as soon as possible, so I can consider whether the charges are justified. As a senior citizen who is not employed, I anticipate that I will be entitled to some reduction in fees.

Yours faithfully,

Wendy Bacon

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