Auckland Council

Advance Notice: Auckland Council Regulatory Services – Planning and Specialist Panels

Advance Notice only

This advance notice is to inform the market of an upcoming Auckland Council Request for Expression of Interest (REOI) to provide overflow planning and specialist services to our Regulatory Services Division.

Auckland Council Regulatory Services Division (“Regulatory”) will be seeking to update our existing supplier panels to provide overflow planning and specialist services for processing resource consent applications:

• Planning Panel – planning services to process resource consent applications (overflow services outsourced by the Resource Consent department)
• Specialist Panel (with multiple sub-categories) – specialist services and reports to advise on resource consent applications processed by the Regulatory division

It is anticipated that there will be an open market REOI (stage 1) issued through GETS in late May 2024 with some pre-conditions to be met to identify any new suppliers in the market who may be suitable to provide the services. The shortlisted suppliers will then be invited through SAP Ariba to submit a Request for Proposal (RFP) (stage 2) response which will be evaluated to identify the most suitable suppliers for the Panels.

Note: If you are an existing Auckland Council Resource Consents Planning or Specialist panel supplier, you will be invited when we release the 2nd stage RFP through SAP Ariba (anticipated in late June 2024) on the basis that you would have been pre-qualified in the past through an open tender process which is equivalent to REOI (stage 1). Current Resource Consents panel suppliers will go straight to the 2nd stage without a need to participate in the first stage REOI, which is intended for any new suppliers from the open market. If you are unsure, please email the Procurement contact person above to confirm.

The updated panels will be valid for an initial period of 3 years and a potential further right of renewal period of 3 years at council’s discretion, and subject to performance.

For further information, please download the notification from attachments.