Airport Management Services

Whangarei District Council (WDC) are reviewing their:

• Airport Management services

WDC have engaged The Integral Group Limited (TIGL) to assist with this process. TIGL’s role is to facilitate the procurement process, assisted by subject matter expertise provided by the council.

The process will be a two staged open market process:

• Registration of Interest (ROI)
• Request for Proposal (RFP)

This ROI is the first formal step in the process and is intended to be of minimal effort for respondents and allow WDC to create a short list of suppliers to invite to enter the RFP process.

The RFP will include:

• written responses to questions
• an interactive workshop (normally 1.5 to 2 hours ) which will include verbal clarification and expansion on the written RFP questions
• written pricing
• respondents will be evaluated and preferred respondents selected

The following information provides a general background to this procurement process:

• the relationship is a joint venture between the Ministry of Transport and WDC
• the airport management contract is managed by WDC. WDC operates the airport as an Airport Authority under the Airport Authorities Act 1966 and contracts out the day-to-day management of the airport
• there is no registered company or other entity that governs this relationship
• the relationship is governed by a Joint Venture Agreement dated 26 August 1963. The venture is, however, a Council Controlled Organisation under the Local Government Act 2002 as WDC has a 50% control over the venture