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Strong partnerships with the private sector are essential to the success of the e-government programme.
The E-government Unit will build relationships with information services, technology and telecommunications vendors to ensure their involvement in the programme occurs in a consistent and effective manner.
Our current approach
Outward communication
- We invite vendors to register
with our database offering timely notification about:
- new E-government Unit RFIs/RFPs at the time of publication
- vendor briefing seminars given by the Unit
- the latest issue of @your.service, the Unit's online newsletter
- opportunities to participate in programme activities, such as consultation processes.
- We provide vendor briefings once or twice a year, or on specific topics as needs are identified.
Two-way communication
Open or targeted invitations to vendors to participate in working groups, think tanks or consultation processes.
Limited brokerage of vendor capability
We think it is important to ensure government agencies can easily find out about solutions to common problems
We invite vendors on our database to submit brief targeted information sheets about their services that we pull together for presentation. Examples include Word to HTML conversion tools and shared workspace services.
Vendors can be invited to present at our multi-agency network meetings on work they have successfully carried out to "solve' an e-government related business problem. Our guiding principle is that such presentations require sponsorship or endorsement by the government agency involved.
E-government Unit purchasing
We follow the government procurement guidelines (see http://www.med.govt.nz/irdev/gov_pur.html).
All E-government Unit tenders are posted on http://www.e-government.govt.nz/vendors/current-tenders.html
All E-government Unit tenders expected to be over the value of $50,000 are also posted on http://www.gets.govt.nz
Vendors in our database are notified of our tenders.
