The Local Government Amendment (Red Tape Reduction) Bill 2014 (‘the Bill’) has recently been introduced in NSW Parliament.
The Bill proposes a number of amendments to the Local Government Act 1993 (NSW) and the Local Government (General) Regulation 2005 (NSW) in respect of local government tendering.
The first amendment proposed by the Bill relates to joint or collective local government tendering. Under the current law, councils undertaking joint procurement must each separately resolve to accept a tender. The Bill proposes to remove the restriction on the delegation of tenders by councils in order to facilitate group purchasing by councils without the need to go back to each individual council for endorsement. [...]
