LGWM Māori and Pasifika business supplier register

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Wellington City Council is issuing this Notice on behalf of Let’s Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) and its programme partners, Waka Kotahi, Greater Wellington Regional Council, Taranaki Whānui and Te Ati Awa.

In December 2020, following Cabinet agreement, the Government announced a new progressive procurement policy with a focus on Māori businesses. This policy requires all government agencies that are subject to the Government Procurement Rules to set and report against a target that at least 5% of the total number of their annual procurement contracts are awarded to Māori businesses.

For the purposes of this procurement policy, a Māori business is defined as either a Māori authority as classified by the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) or one that has at least 50% Māori ownership. You can find out if you are eligible to be classified as a Maori Business by IRD by looking at Section YA 1 of the Income Tax Act 2007 (Financial institution special purpose vehicles (ird.govt.nz)). This section defines a Māori Authority as ‘a person who has made an election under section HF11 (Choosing to become Maori authority)’. Section HF 2 states who is eligible to be a Māori authority.

LGWM is seeking information from Māori and Pasifika businesses to self-identify with necessary detail to inform our supplier register. We will also be using our Mana Whenua Partners’ networks together with Te Awe and Amotai to inform our register. LGWM intends on storing this information for our records to increase the diversity of suppliers engaged by LGWM and to provide more opportunities for Māori & Pasifika businesses to tender for our contracts.

We ask that you provide the information as outlined in the attachment to this GETS listing and email to procurement@lgwm.nz.

Please contact us if you have any questions.

For more information please visit Progressive Procurement (tpk.govt.nz)