Updated Guidelines: NGO - Government Contracts
Updated guidelines on contracting between non-government organisations (NGOs) and government agencies have been released by Treasury. The most significant changes to the guidelines are:
- an increased emphasis on reducing unnecessary compliance costs, and the appropriate monitoring of contracts - particularly by structuring monitoring arrangements according to documented assessments of risk;
- an increased emphasis on better documentation by government agencies of their funding and contracting decisions, especially where an agency has departed from its own policies or procedures;
- a broader discussion of making payments, including references to structuring payments to align with expected deliverables where this is practicable (the guidelines acknowledge that this is not always desirable or possible) and to ensuring that the government is not paying twice for the same service ("double funding"); and
- the inclusion of references to government agencies encouraging "good employer" practices and ethical standards among the NGOs they fund.
The revised guidelines are available on Treasury's website http://www.Treasury.Govt.nz |
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