The general rentals and commercial rentals categories include nationwide rental vehicle providers and discounted fixed daily rates to ensure agencies continue to achieve the best possible value.
The less–than-one-day rentals category includes providers who have footprints in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch with discounted fixed rates (right up to the minute) which will help agencies to reduce emissions profiles and achieve broader outcomes.
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The AoG Rental vehicles contract includes three categories.
Each category features:
All categories:
International hire rates.
Less-than-one-day rentals:
Commercial solutions requiring agencies to provide car parks and/or charging infrastructure to receive the service.
General rentals and light commercial rentals:
Agencies can rent vehicles from any provider on the panel that meets their travel needs. To enable full flexibility, agencies can complete a service order with each of the panel providers.
Where your agency requires a secondary procurement process, a pricing calculator and services comparison guide are available under the contract resources section to streamline this process. Where no secondary procurement process is required, a service order will need to be signed with every provider that the agency wishes to rent vehicles from.
Less-than-one-day rentals:
The less-than-one-day rentals category offers a mobility solution that provides minute/hourly vehicle rentals. It’s also referred in the market as car-sharing. It can be an alternative solution to taxi and a potential replacement to your fleet vehicles.
In this category the providers offer an all-inclusive rental vehicles solution with the rate including fuel/electricity charge, parking, and vehicle maintenance.
There are two main operation models for this category. One is a round trip model and the other is a free floating model. The round trip model means that hirers pick up and return a rental car from a designated car park. The free floating model means that a hirer picks up a rental car from point A and returns the car to point B. It’s essentially a one way trip approach.
Agencies can rent vehicles from any provider on the panel that meets their travel needs. To enable full flexibility, agencies can complete a service order with each of the panel providers. As it’s an emerging market, each provider’s offerings are different. Please refer to services comparison guide and agency guide which are available under the contract resources section to provide further support.
Here are two examples of how agencies are using the service:
Less than one-day rental vehicles offer on-demand service for agencies
The rental vehicles contract offers:
Rental vehicles broader outcomes
Benefits of the AoG travel pricing model include:
Agencies who participate in the rental vehicles contract don't need to go through a full procurement process of their own, which saves time, effort and cost. Estimates show participating agencies save an average of 7-40% compared to market rates through the contract.
The calculators in the contract resources section (agency login required) provide high-level pricing comparisons across providers' AoG daily hire rates.
General rentals and light commercial rentals:
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.
Rates in this contract include an administration fee of 1.5% of the total daily hire spend. It is not applied to extras such as one-way fees, pick-up and delivery fees, refuelling or accessories.
Poviders collect the administration fee and pass it on to MBIE - agencies don't need to make any payments to MBIE.
Less-than-one-day rentals:
There is no administration fee from the launch of less-than-one-day rentals until 30 June 2020.
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The AoG travel pricing model is recognised as best practice and is followed by three AoG travel contracts:
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.