FOI – 000326 Go-Centric COVID-19 test and trace activity (HTML)

Date received – 7 December 2022 | Date responded – 9 January 2023

Request

All information on the deteriorating financial position of Go-Centric, a company engaged by NSS to conduct COVID-19 test and trace activity on its behalf.

This should include any intimation from the company that it may not be able to fulfil its contracted obligations - and any response from you on the matter.

The company ceased trading on December 1 2022 so I'd appreciate any information related to this impending event which you hold.

Response

I can advise you that we have now completed the search of our records and can provide you with the following information as appendices:

• Appendix 1 – Urgent Call_Redacted (this is an email from Go-Centric on 23 November 2022 asking for a meeting to be arranged.
• Appendix 2 – Meeting comments - Summary of above meeting (appendix 1) and a summary of a meeting which took place on 30 November 2022. This is a contemporaneous note from an NSS representative.
• Appendix 3 - Re_ NCC Commercial contractor_Redacted (this is an email discussion regarding Go-Centric).
• Appendix 4 - NCC and GoCentric QandA 06122022 RP (this is the attachment from Appendix 3).

Some of the documentation includes personal data of third parties, specifically, names of individuals which have not been released into the public domain on any previous FOIs or literature regarding this topic. Where this is the case, these names and contact details have been redacted in line with exception (Section 38 (1)(b)) of the FOISA

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