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Transitioning to the new procurement environment

Updated: 2 December 2009

If you're an approved organisation, you can start using the procurement procedures contained in the new Procurement manual once you have developed a strategy that has been endorsed by us.

Your nearest NZ Transport Agency office can provide guidance on making the transition to the new procurement environment.

Using the new procurement procedures during transition

Approved organisations can use the new procedures before they have an endorsed strategy in place during the transition period, providing they:

  • document the strategic, value for money context of each procurement activity; and
  • make a written commitment to the NZTA to produce a procurement strategy by 1 October 2010.

Approved organisations that would like to use the new procurement procedures before their procurement strategy has been endorsed should contact their local NZTA office.

We envisage that all approved organisations will have their strategies endorsed by October 2010, when the Competitive pricing procedure manuals will be withdrawn.

Have questions about the new procurement environment?

Check out the answers to a selection of questions.


Learn about the benefits

The new procurement environment seeks to provide approved organisations with the flexibility to adapt to changing situations and more certainty for suppliers. Find out more about these and other benefits of the new environment.


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