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Here's some useful guidance for suppliers, to help you manage your contracts with government agencies during phase 1 of the National Fuel Response Plan.

Our guidance on integrating economic benefits to your procurement now includes specific elements you can adapt to your organisation.

Juggling everything and you are the only person in your organisation in charge of procurement? Tod Cooper, Director Procurement for the Department of Corrections has got some tips for you.

Mark shares his advice to people looking to start procurement careers, what a dollar saved on equipment can mean for an animal’s quality of life, and some of his biggest achievements.

Olivia Tuatoko and Lesa Laga talk about duties including finding suppliers to maintain lighthouses, sourcing oil spill cleaning gear, and everyday solutions to make life a little easier in the office.

Now, more than ever, it is critical agencies properly manage any conflicts of interest and are seen to be fair and operating with integrity.

Here is some useful guidance to support your agency as the situation evolves. You will need your RealMe login to access this guidance.

The ANZAC day poppy we all wear has had one of its most remarkable procurement journeys ever.

After Tropical Cyclone Gita destroyed important buildings for the people of Tonga, procurement teams have stepped in to help with a complex rebuild.

How is corruption showing up in Aotearoa New Zealand and what role do transparency practices in procurement play?

There’s a new suppliers hub and you’re encouraged to use it.

Procure Connect, the government's e-procurement platform, is live and we continue to migrate the All-of-Government (AoG) panels from our website. We are offering fortnightly webinars to introduce the platform and to help agencies get started with Procure Connect.

Kaye talks to us about what was involved in helping build Aotearoa New Zealand’s first team of strategic procurement professionals.

Helping people make smarter choices to deliver real value was a key driver to pulling Tupono Pahi into the procurement profession. He's got aims and ideas for how the industry can attract more people and grow the community's capabilities.

Leading with purpose, integrity and heart, Charlotte Payne steps down from her role at CIPSANZ. It's been a 21-year journey with CIPS – spanning continents and decades. She reflects on what she has learned and what she thinks the future of procurement holds.

This is the complex story that shows the role procurement plays in sourcing an incredibly important part of New Zealand’s healthcare system.

A drone is being used to help track one of New Zealand’s biggest biosecurity disasters. The procurement officer behind the project shares what the introduction of the drone in the fight against possums means and the role procurement has had in this step.

NZGP was lucky to host Hiba Tahboub, Director and Chief Procurement Officer, and Khalid Bin Anjum, Senior Procurement Officer, from the World Bank in a recent Knowledge Hour.

The Minister for Energy today announced MBIE is working with the three largest electricity consuming central government agencies (New Zealand Defence Force, Health NZ and Department of Corrections) on pursuing potential Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs).

New members of the Business Reference Group (BRG), representing businesses from across a number of sectors, met for the first time in early February.

We are reopening the Construction consultancy services (CCS) panel to new applications from March 2026 for scheduled supplier onboarding.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the Government Procurement Practitioners Competency Framework. The framework, along with the Competency Assessment Tool and Learning Pathways Guide, is now available on our website.

New equipment that supports everything from groundwater tracing to volcanic hazard monitoring has arrived in the country.

What it's like having to procure for a child’s education and the role of All-of-Government contracts. Pradeep Kumar takes us through the paces of procurement in education.

Find out how early immersion in another culture and viewing procurement processes as helping uplift people and getting them the desired outcomes they want have helped shaped a career.

Government agencies are now expected to pay businesses that send them eInvoices within 5 days under 2 of the new procurement rules that kicked in this month.

Explore NZGP data dashboards in a whole new way through Power BI.

We are excited to share that Augment Resources will be working with us to deliver the Government Procurement Graduate Programme from 2026 to 2029.

This year’s survey shows an overall satisfaction rating of 67% across the 23 collaborative contracts managed by New Zealand Government Procurement (NZGP).

Putting people first in the design of a complex procurement programme landed two of the biggest procurement prizes available in the Southern Hemisphere.