The technology will allow more than 500 fuel sites across New Zealand to boost payments security and support new customer-centric digital offerings Transaction Network Services (TNS) announced a new partnership with Z Energy —New Zealand’s leading fuel retailer — to enhance their retail customer experience through TNS Secure SD-WAN, which leverages Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution to combine industry-leading managed payment services with ...

The New Zealand Electricity Authority has a services contract opportunity for providers of market making services to support the New Zealand wholesale electricity futures market. The Authority reviewed market making arrangements in the New Zealand futures market throughout 2020 and decided to procure market making services on a commercial basis. The Authority is inviting organisations interested in providing market making ...

The technology will allow more than 500 fuel sites across New Zealand to boost payments security and support new customer-centric digital offerings RESTON, Va.– Transaction Network Services (TNS) today announced a new partnership with Z Energy —New Zealand’s leading fuel retailer — to enhance their retail customer experience through TNS Secure SD-WAN, which leverages Fortinet’s Secure SD-WAN solution to combine industry-leading ...

Artist impression of light rail on Queen Street in Auckland.  The way the Government has gone about procuring light rail in Auckland has left a sour note with the Auditor-General. Put bluntly, Auditor-General John Ryan is not impressed with a decision to have a run-off between two bidders in response to concerns the Government was not following its own rules. ...

The New Zealand government has issued a request for proposals to provide the nation’s physicians with a primer on medical marijuana and its use as a medicine. The government hopes the resulting educational publication, or resource, will provide health practitioners with a starting point to understand cannabis and its medical uses.Improved doctor education is considered an important step for the ...

Gary Kircher.  Waitaki Mayor Gary Kircher says he makes no apologies for his strong stance against the Government’s shovel-ready project funding process. In his mayoral report presented at yesterday’s council meeting, Mr Kircher told councillors he had not received official notification from the Government, but it was understood all five of the Waitaki District Council’s applications had been unsuccessful. In ...

The Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment has outlined new criteria for KiwiSaver default fund providers as it seeks bidders in a request for proposals released today. KiwiSaver providers who want to be part of the default scheme will need to offer a low-fee balanced fund that does not invest in weapons or fossil fuels, and demonstrate they can engage ...

IRD has shifted the Productivity Commission into its Oracle-based Ātea environment Inland Revenue is expected to release a tender for a new software-as-a-service (SaaS)-based payroll system at the end of the month, ahead of the establishment of a new all-of-government payroll panel. IRD will aims to replace its current on-premise solution with a software as a service system hosted on ...

Catherine Delahunty. Green Party co-leader James Shaw is facing criticism from party members for approving nearly $12 million in funding for a privately-owned “green” school in Taranaki. It flies in the face of the party’s policy to not publicly fund private schools. James Shaw is under mounting pressure, and is urgently working to find a solution before an online meeting ...

Ideally, IRIS will be rebuilt as a cloud-based SaaS platform, GM says Seven out of 11 regional councils use the IRIS platform. The information system developed and shared by several New Zealand regional councils is set for a makeover with five vendors shortlisted for the rebuild. Requests for expressions of interest to rebuild the Integrated Regional Information System (IRIS), originally ...

Waikato Regional Council has secured $5.535 million in Government funding for quick-start restoration projects. Waikato Regional Council has bid for more than $160 million of funding in response to the Government’s call for shovel ready projects to help with New Zealand’s economic recovery from COVID-19. Our bids include funding for flood protection infrastructure and stock truck effluent disposal sites across ...

Australia and New Zealand will head into Friday morning’s vote on the hosting of the 2023 Women’s World Cup with no questions around support from their federal governments after the prime ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the tournament. Having already pledged a combined $110 million towards hosting the tournament, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Australian Prime Minister Scott ...

The new ferries will be the first New Zealand has introduced to the Interislander fleet in over 25 years New Zealand operator KiwiRail has issued a request for proposal (RFP) to find a preferred shipyard to build two new-generation Interislander ferries. The Interislander ferries are extensions of New Zealand’s State Highway 1 and the Main Trunk Line across the Cook ...

A vocal opponent of a $50 million Yarrow stadium upgrade project in New Plymouth says he has mixed feelings about it making it through the first cull of ‘shovel-ready’ projects bidding for government funding as part of the Covid-19 economic recovery. The home of the Taranaki Bulls rugby side was declared earthquake prone in 2017, and its owner, the Taranaki ...

The concept design of the new ferries that will operate across the Cook Strait in New Zealand. Credit: OSK Shiptech / KiwiRail. New Zealand state-owned enterprise KiwiRail has launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) to find a shipyard for the construction of two ships for Interislander. Interislander is operated by KiwiRail and is a road and rail ferry service that ...

Wellington Station WILL be reopened after Government confirms application success A BID to reopen the railway station in Wellington has been given the go ahead, the Government has announced. MP Chris Heaton Harris, rail minister, confirmed that the Devon and Metro Somerset Group’s application to try and reopen stations in Wellington and Cullompton had been approved. The group will now have to ...

The post-lockdown period could be the best time to win new business, writes Ben Paul. All it takes is the right approach, service innovation, and a positive attitude. Clearly, I am not advocating that a huge global economic downturn is a great thing for the whole business community. My heart genuinely does go out to those who had a great ...

Welcome to Coronavirus Government Global Briefing, Mandarin Premium’s morning update on everything in local and global government responses to the COVID-19 outbreak. When “red tape” actually is red tape During crises like COVID-19, it’s understandable to see bids to slash elements of bureaucracy that, one way or another, were designed for longer, calmer periods of deliberation; see, for example, any of the emergency powers ...

Work has started on the southern-most part of the City Rail Link project at Mt Eden earlier this year, marked by Auckland Mayor Phil Goff, CRL CEO Sean Sweeney and Transport Minister Phil Twyford. The Government’s flagship infrastructure project has been put “on hold” while it fights the Covid-19 pandemic, but there are some doubts it will ever get going again. ...

The West Coast Regional Council has put in a bid for $32.8million from the Government’s economic recovery infrastructure fund for flood protection work. The projects include $19.8million for a long-term solution for Franz Josef Glacier, $8million for a flood warning system and stopbanks for Westport, $2.58million to extend Greymouth’s floodwall and $2.5million for an extension of the Hokitika seawall and ...

RNZ revealed Pharmac had withdrawn its request for proposals (RFP) for companies to pitch prices for Keytruda. Pharmac’s decision to backtrack on funding Keytruda is a major blow for equality in New Zealand’s health system, a leading oncologist says. Lung cancer is the most fatal cancer in New Zealand, taking about 1800 lives a year, but immunotherapy drugs like Keytruda ...

A $30.8m bid for flood protection work by the West Coast Regional Council includes a $19.8m  project for a long-term solution for Franz Josef Glacier.  The West Coast Regional Council has put in a bid for $30.8 million for flood protection work from the Government’s economic recovery infrastructure fund. The projects include $19.8m for a long-term solution for Franz Josef ...

NZ On Air is fast-tracking into production a diverse range of new content from fresh creative teams in the latest funding round, ensuring there’s a pipeline of work for the production sector post-lockdown (and during lockdown where safely possible.) The latest round called for applications meeting NZ On Air’s ‘Fresh opportunities’ objectives which encourages innovation and opportunities for different storytellers. ...