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Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA): Request for information

I refer to your email dated 10/2/2025.

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Ngā mihi

Environment Canterbury

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From: J.K <[FOI #30018 email]>
Sent: Monday, 10 February 2025 11:52 am
To: LGOIMA <[ECAN request email]>
Subject: Official Information request - Wilding Conifer funding and RPMP rules

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Dear Canterbury Regional Council,

I refer to the Strategy and Policy Committee meeting of 5 February 2025.

It is noted that the Council is seeking alternative funding arrangements for the programme, and is also seeking further funding commitments from Central Government.

Can you please advise:

1. Have the rules under the CRPMP been enforced on and around land which has been subject to funding under the programme? If not, why not - particularly given the significant central investment in Canterbury?

2. Is there a strategy for transition from the centrally-funded programme to use of the CRPMP rules? I note that a 'prioritised strategic approach' is indicated in the Biodiversity and Biosecurity Committee agenda of 8 November 2023; can you please advise the details of this approach, and what is the long-term plan once central funding expires?

3. I refer to previous Biosecurity Advisory Group meeting notes in which a 'Plant Me Instead' guide is referred to. Can you please advised when this will be published?

4. I refer to a previous Biodiversity and Biosecurity Committee agenda (August 2023), in which a grazing consent application is noted. Can you please advise the total expenditure on this, and whether it has been consented?

5. I note that a tender is currently on GETS for 'Wilding Conifer Operations Delivery Services'. I note that the incumbent is Zolve Environmental, which was incorporated in Dec 2021 and shortly thereafter contracted for operational delivery consultancy services for this programme, which appears to have been direct-sourced as there is no record of this in GETS. Can you please advise: 1) if this approach was subject to legal and procurement review as per the Council's procurement policy; 2) total value of the direct-sourced contract, and 3) whether any other consultancies were considered for this work prior to direct-sourcing Zolve. 4) I note that this direct-source approach violated Government Procurement Rules - was this reported to Audit New Zealand accordingly?

Yours faithfully,
R

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