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Māori Business Directory This directory will assist agencies to identify new Māori businesses to contract with. Use the directory to explore the profiles of Māori businesses who are government procurement ready. Use the support page to learn more about the directory. Agency’s Māori business validation tool This tool will assist agencies with their progressive procurement reporting obligations by verifying the Māori businesses you contract with. Use the support page above to learn how to use the tool.

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Progressive Procurement

Māori businesses are being supported to be tender-ready and to navigate government procurement processes through an initiative by Te Puni Kōkiri and the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment to increase supplier diversity.

Buyers (Government Agencies)

Te Puni Kōkiri is government’s principal policy advisor on Māori wellbeing and development. In this section you can learn about our refreshed strategic framework, our history and the legislation we administer.

Suppliers (Māori businesses)

A shift by Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency (Waka Kotahi) to using a broader outcomes lens when deciding on contract spend is having a positive effect on Māori-owned businesses and the wider Tairāwhiti community.