This All-of-Government contract offers specialist consultancy advice and competitive solutions from a panel of experienced consultancy providers across 11 sub-categories.
The scope of the Business and Finance category of the AoG Consultancy Services solution includes Consultancy Services in the following sub-categories. Providers may also provide additional focus areas per sub-category.
Assurance
Quality assurance and advice including independent quality assurance, technical quality assurance and other quality assurance.
The Government Chief Information Officer (GCIO) has established a GCIO Assurance Services Sub-Panel. This panel offers eligible and mandated agencies a choice of 26 panel providers who specialise in the provision of Independent Quality Assurance (IQA) and Technical Quality Assurance (TQA) for ICT-enabled projects and programmes. Visit the GCIO Assurance Services Sub-Panel page for further information.
Audit
Advisory services on business change processes and methodologies to ensure that organisational change is successfully planned and executed.
Human resource consultants advise organisations or agencies on the management and development of their workforce, or human resources.
Marketing and public relations
Marketing consultants focus on developing strategies in order to successfully promote, sell and distribute goods and/or services to targeted groups of end users. Public relations consultancy services means assisting an organisation, or agency, to manage the flow of information between that organisation and the public.
Operations management and risk
Operations management includes services relating to business process and quality improvement plans through reviews of operating models and their design.
Risk advisory services relate to risk identification, assessment and management, and security and safety systems.
Policy, research and development
A policy consultancy provides services to agencies to assist in the development and evaluation of public policy initiatives, in the New Zealand context. Research and development includes investigative activities.
Policy, strategy and design, sourcing (excluding Public Private Partnerships), spend analysis and supply chain.
Consultants are covered by this contract. PLEASE NOTE that Contractors are out of scope.
Contractor is defined as: if an individual is being provided to an agency with no defined outcome, agreed milestones, or extensive warranty regarding these, this constitutes a recruitment service for the provision of a contractor and is covered by the AoG External Recruitment Services contract.
Contact us if you need advice on what is out of scope.
Providers are appointed across three tiers within each sub category. Tiers are based on capacity, capability and value of agency spend. Each tier has been appointed in relation to their current Government spend and their ability to provide services in one or more sub-categories.
Agencies can select a provider from across the tiers, depending on which provider best suits their needs. Further information on tiers can be found on the Provider page.
Agencies who participate in the Consultancy Services contract don't need to go through a full procurement process of their own, which saves time, effort and cost.
NZGP has secured Maximum and Standard AoG Daily Rates per level of consultant per Provider. A full outline of the Maximum and Standard Daily Rates is available via the Online Panel Directory to assist agencies with identifying suitable providers. Providers are expected to charge the Standard Daily Rate unless there is a justifiable reason to charge an amount up to the Maximum rate. Agencies are strongly encouraged to negotiate rates below the Standard rate recognising the uniqueness of each engagement.
Most AoG contracts include an administration fee. This fee is a simple, effective and transparent way of recovering the cost of developing, sourcing, implementing and managing AoG contracts.
For the Consultancy Services Contract, an administration fee of 1% is applicable on Tier 1 and Tier 2 Provider services. Engagement of Tier 3 providers will not incur an administration fee. The Provider adds the administration fee as an additional cost at time of invoicing.
Providers collect the administration fee and pass it on to MBIE - agencies don't need to make any payments to MBIE.
*Additional contract date information
This solution started on 6 November 2015 and included the following six sub-categories:
Accounting
Assurance
Audit
Finance and Economics
Procurement and Logistics
Taxation
0n 16 December 2016 a further five sub-categories were added:
Business Change
Human Resource
Marketing and Public Relations
Operations Management and Risk
Policy, Research and Development
To be able to purchase from this contract agencies and schools first need to join.
Each participant in this contract has responsibilities that they must meet as part of that contract.