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EQC selected Salesforce, unadvertised, as a 'prototype'
Salesforce selection follows controversy over the Ministry of Health's rollout of the same software.
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New Zealand government disaster insurer EQC selected Salesforce as its engagement platform without openly advertising because it was considered a "prototype".
The rules of government procurement include a series of exemptions from standard requirements to openly advertise planned purchases, under section 14.9.
In this case, EQC invoked section 14.9e, which allows the purchase of a prototype for "research, experiment, study or original development".