Opportunities

We buy a wide range of goods and services. Our contracts can be small (a few hundred dollars) or large (millions of dollars).

We have large projects, but we also need everyday services and support.

We also work on:

  • upgrading community buildings and housing for older people
  • developing parks, playgrounds, and public spaces
  • improving libraries, pools, and recreation centres
  • running our day-to-day operations with help from IT providers, cleaners, consultants, designers, and more.

We recommend registering your interest so we can learn more about your business and the services you offer and subscribing to our Supplier e-news and tender updates.

Supply categories

Types of work included: 

  • Housing for older persons
  • Other buildings

Details:

All physical works, associated services, equipment and fittings associated with renewals, new construction and fitout of Council-owned buildings and facilities. Includes offices, libraries and customer service centres, visitor centres, housing for older persons, community buildings, art galleries, aquatics facilities, water and wastewater treatment facilities, operations depot, animal shelters, emergency operations centres, public toilets, sports and recreation facilities. Excludes: professional services; ICT; engineering plant, equipment and parts. 

Types of work included: 

  • Chemicals
  • Cleaning exteriors and graffiti removal
  • Cleaning interiors, hygiene, laundry/cleaning/bathroom consumables
  • Decontamination / asbestos testing and removal / mould removal
  • Food and beverage for resale
  • Furniture
  • Inspections and testing
  • Pest control
  • Relocations, removals and storage
  • Security guard services
  • Soft furnishings
  • Whiteware and small appliances
  • Working at height / lifting / safety equipment

Details:

All services and supplies associated with the ongoing routine operation and management of Council-owned buildings and facilities. Includes offices, libraries and customer service centres, visitor centres, housing for older persons, community buildings, art galleries, aquatics facilities, water and wastewater treatment facilities, operations depot, animal shelters, emergency operations centres, public toilets, sports and recreation facilities.

Excludes: professional services; office related supplies and services; energy; ICT; engineering plant, equipment and parts; waste collection transportation and disposal. 

Types of work included: 

  • Building / hardware supplies and other materials
  • Concrete / paving / textured surfaces
  • Electrical
  • Flooring
  • Glazing
  • Handyman services / minor maintenance / carpentry
  • Painting and decorating
  • Plumbing / drainage / gas
  • Roofing

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment, fittings and supplies associated with repairs and maintenance of Council-owned buildings and facilities. Includes offices, libraries and customer service centres, visitor centres, housing for older persons, community buildings, art galleries, aquatics facilities, water and wastewater treatment facilities, operations depot, animal shelters, emergency operations centres, public toilets, sports and recreation facilities. Includes all trades.

Excludes: professional services; ICT; engineering plant, equipment and parts. 

Types of work included: 

  • Access control / security alarm systems / alarm monitoring / locksmiths / CCTV
  • Automatic and roller doors
  • Fire protection and detection equipment
  • First aid / defibrillators
  • Mechanical building services (lifts and HVAC)

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment, fittings and supplies associated with the specialist systems installed in Council-owned buildings and facilities. Includes offices, libraries and customer service centres, visitor centres, housing for older persons, community buildings, art galleries, aquatics facilities, water and wastewater treatment facilities, operations depot, animal shelters, emergency operations centres, public toilets, sports and recreation facilities.

Excludes: professional services; ICT; engineering plant, equipment and parts.  

Types of work included: 

  • Audit and risk service
  • Banking and investments products and services
  • Cash and debt collection
  • Financial and accounting services
  • Insurance
  • Legal and conveyancing
  • Management consulting
  • Valuations

Details:

Business services associated with audit and risk, banking and investment, cash and debt collection, finance and accounting, insurance, legal, valuations and business management.

Excludes: communications and engagement, employment, ICT, office related supplies and services, and professional services which pertain to the built and natural environment.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction of coastal structures.

Excludes professional services.

Types of work included: 

  • Advertising and media buy
  • Communications, consultation, PR, marketing, market research
  • Creative services, graphic design, photography, video, website
  • Customer engagement and call centre
  • Printing and publications
  • Signage (other than street signage)

Details:

All services, products and materials associated with communications and engagement. Includes advertising /media, consultation, PR, marketing, market research, creative/graphic design, photography, video, website, printing and publications, signage, customer engagement and after-hours call centre.

Excludes street signage, art and artists, entertainers, recruitment advertising and mail outs.

Types of work included: 

  • Art and artists
  • Community events and entertainment
  • Venue and equipment hire

Details:

All services, products and materials associated with hosting community organisations and staging / managing events. Includes Art and artists, events and entertainment, venue and equipment hire.

Excludes communications and engagement services. 

Types of work included: 

  • Gifts and recognition expenses
  • PPE and uniforms
  • Recruitment - agency fees
  • Recruitment advertising
  • Specialist HR services
  • Subscriptions and memberships
  • Temporary labour
  • Training and conferences

Details:

All services, products and materials associated with employment of staff, including recruitment, training and conferences, gifts and recognition, PPE and uniforms, subscriptions and memberships, temporary labour and specialist HR services.

Excludes salary and wages, employee benefits and contributions, ACC payments, staff reimbursements, ICT and building occupancy costs. 

Types of work included: 

  • Electricity - other
  • Electricity - street lighting
  • Gas

Details:

The provision of all energy and utilities to support Council operations, including electricity and gas and other forms of energy.

Excludes voice and data. 

Types of work included: 

  • Animal control products and services
  • Building inspections
  • Environmental health inspections
  • Noise and security enforcement

Details:

All services, products and materials associated with enforcement and inspections. Includes animal control, noise and security enforcement, environmental and building inspections.

Excludes parking enforcement, animal shelter buildings/facilities, security systems.

Types of work included: 

  • Hire or purchase and installation and testing
  • Operation, repairs and maintenance

Details:

The purchase or hire, installation, testing, operation and repairs or maintenance associated with engineering / mechanical plant, equipment and parts.

Excludes mechanical building services (lifts and HVAC etc.).

Types of work included: 

  • Cloud services
  • Computer software and systems
  • Consulting services
  • Devices and accessories
  • Equipment leasing
  • Network, servers and ICT infrastructure
  • Voice and data

Details:

All systems, software, devices, accessories, services, equipment, infrastructure, and work associated with the provision of information and communications technology. Includes data/voice cabling.

Excludes: printers/scanners and office consumables.  

Types of work included: 

  • Catering for events and meetings
  • Kitchen/canteen consumables
  • Office consumables, including paper, printing and other consumables
  • Office equipment, including printers/scanners
  • Plants hire
  • Postage, courier, freight and mail outs
  • Records management, document storage and archive

Details:

All supplies, consumables, services, and equipment associated with office-based activities. Includes: catering; kitchen/canteen consumables; office and printing consumables; office equipment, printers and scanners (leased or purchased); plants hire; postage, courier, freight and mail outs; records management, document storage and achieve.

Excludes: cleaning, waste collection, whiteware and small appliances, furniture, first aid, energy/utilities and ICT.

Types of work included: 

  • Arborists and tree services
  • Equipment maintenance
  • Equipment supply
  • Fencing and minor structures
  • Mowing, garden maintenance and weed control
  • Native regeneration
  • New landscaping and landscape design
  • Nurseries and landscaping supplies
  • Sports ground management and maintenance, irrigation

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment, infrastructure, minor structures and supplies associated with the development, management and maintenance of parks and gardens, reserves, sports grounds, cemeteries and streetscapes. 

Excludes coastal structures and professional services.

Types of work included: 

  • Other

Details:

Goods, services or works not included elsewhere.

Types of work included: 

  • Architectural and design
  • Asset management, facilities management, property management
  • Elections and governance
  • Engineering, project management and procurement
  • Environmental and Sustainability
  • Planning, development, consents, regulatory
  • Quantity Surveying
  • Soil, water and other environmental testing
  • Specialist Services

Details:

Architecture and design; asset management; facilities management; property management; engineering; project management; procurement; environment and sustainability; planning, development, consents and regulatory; quantity surveying; soil, waster and other environmental testing, elections and governance and other specialist areas.

Excludes: ICT consulting; audit and risk, banking and investment, cash and debt collection, finance and accounting, insurance, legal, valuations and business management.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Operations
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with operations, repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction of roading and parking infrastructure and traffic management. Includes bridges and road signs.

Excludes professional services and streetscapes.

Types of work included: 

  • Confidential waste
  • General waste
  • Hazardous / contaminated waste
  • Waste minimisation, recycling and reuse, e-waste, organic waste/composting

Details:

All services related to solid waste management. Includes general waste, waste minimisation, recycling and reuse, e-waste, organic waste/composting, confidential waste, hazardous/contaminated waste.

Excludes asbestos testing and removal. 

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction of stormwater reticulation and associated structures.

Excludes professional services and streetscapes.

Types of work included: 

  • Accommodation
  • Air fares
  • Car hire, taxis, public transport, parking, tolls, other

Details:

Accommodation and all modes of transport for staff travelling on work business. Includes travel management costs.

Excludes meals and incidentals. 

Types of work included: 

  • Fuel and consumables
  • Repairs, maintenance, registration and WOFs
  • Vehicle purchase/lease/disposal

Details:

All services, products and materials associated with the operation of the KCDC vehicle fleet. Includes cars, vans, utes, trucks, trailers. Includes purchase and lease costs, fuel and consumables, servicing and repairs, registration, WOFs, disposal costs.

Excludes Engineering Plant, Equipment and Parts.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Operations
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with operations, repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction of wastewater reticulation. Includes pump stations.

Excludes professional services and streetscapes.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Operations
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with operations, repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction in association with wastewater treatment and disposal. Includes water quality testing.

Excludes professional services.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Operations
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with operations, repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction of water reticulation. Includes water meters.

Excludes professional services and streetscapes.

Types of work included: 

  • New construction
  • Operations
  • Repairs, renewals and maintenance

Details:

All physical works, services, equipment and products associated with operations, repairs and maintenance, renewals and new construction in association with water treatment and supply. Includes water quality testing and chemicals.

Excludes professional services.