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J Bruning
[FYI request #20641 email]
Tēnā koe J Bruning
Your Official Information Act request, reference OIA 22/23– 0252
Thank you for your email of 22 September 2022 to the Department of Internal Affairs (the
Department), requesting the fol owing information under the Official Information Act 1982
(the Act):
Please supply all costs/renumeration paid to strategy and management
consultancy firms and staff for services rendered, including PWC/Deloitte/Boston
Consulting Group/McKinsey concerning information and advice supplied to the
DIA from July 1 2018 - July 1 2022.
This is for information relating to Three Waters. This includes the Review and
services endered [sic]
for advice relating to three waters management (such as,
but not restricted to, infrastructure upgrades, the Taumata Arowai – Water
Services Regulator Bill, and the Water Services Bill for safe drinking water and the
Water Services Entities Bill.
Please separate costs by firm and by year.
The Three Waters Reform programme is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamental y
change how we deliver safe and affordable water services in our country. It involves
investment of resources to reform the delivery of three waters services to realise significant
benefits for al New Zealanders. This is a large-scale task involving the detailed design and
establishment of four new Water Services Entities by 1 July 2024. It requires the transfer of
substantial assets, liabilities, staff, information and systems. Much of this work is of a one-off
nature and demands specialist skil s. It is reasonable and necessary in that context to use
contractors and consultants in addition to employed staff.
The capacity and capability needed to undertake a change of this magnitude exceeded the
short-term capacity of the public service, which required the programme to make use of
advisory support. Where skil s and competencies were not readily available within the central
government public sector, consultants and contractors have been utilised.
Please find attached Appendix A, which outlines the total amount paid to strategy and
management consultancy firms, each year between FY2018/19 to 2021/22.
Te Tari Taiwhenua
Department of Internal Affairs
As this information may be of interest to other members of the public, the Department has
decided to proactively release a copy of this response on the Department’s website. Al your
personal details will be deleted, and we wil not publish any information that would identify
you as the person who requested the information.
You have the right, under section 28(3) of the Act, to seek an investigation and review of this
decision by the Office of the Ombudsman. The postal address of the Office of the Ombudsman
is PO Box 10152, Wellington. Alternatively, you can phone 0800 802 602 or email
[email address].
Nāku noa, nā
Rashad Saeedi
Manager, Ministerial Services
Three Waters Reform Programme
Appendix A: Total amount paid to strategy and management consultancy firms, each
year between FY2018/19 to 2021/22.
# Consultant Name
FY2019
FY2020
FY2021
FY2022
Grand Total
1. Deloitte
$50,000.00
—
$281,075.00
$252,500.00
$583,575.00
2. Ernst & Young (Wn)
—
—
$2,754,276.17
$6,563,673.99
$9,317,950.16
3. Farrier Swier Consulting Pty Ltd
—
—
$106,981.88
$68,271.25
$175,253.13
4. GHD Limited
—
—
—
$459,232.43
$459,232.43
5. Grant Thornton New Zealand Ltd
—
—
$69,617.28
$158,596.25
$228,213.53
6. KPMG
—
$40,172.75
—
$357,242.02
$397,414.77
7. Mafic Partners Limited
—
—
$708,414.13
$1,582,035.41
$2,290,449.54
8. Martin Jenkins & Associates
$384,781.00
$389,896.18
$1,706,024.31
$1,788,426.43
$4,269,127.92
9. Price Waterhouse Coopers
—
$85,850.00
$419,246.96
$561,802.77
$1,066,899.73
10. Pricewaterhousecoopers Consulting
—
—
—
$25,503.90
$25,503.90
11. Ranch Consulting Limited
—
—
—
$22,000.00
$22,000.00
12. Resource Co-Ordination Partnership Trust
—
—
—
$246,580.40
$246,580.40
13.
Total
$434,781.00
$515,918.93
$6,045,635.73
$12,085,864.85
$19,082,200.51
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