Statement of purpose

Background

Overview

• Principles and areas
  • Contracting
    • Respect
    • Integrity
    • Responsiveness
    • Competency
    • Reciprocity
  • Ethics
  • Pacific Peoples
  • Maori

Context

Acknowledgements

Applying the Principle of Reciprocity to research and evaluation contracting

To ensure their relationships with Contractors are reciprocal, officials should:

• Be willing to engage in a manner that can produce sustainable relationships.
• Be aware that contractors are working in a market where demand and supply may not match, where contractor availability may not coincide with agency timelines and where capacity and capability may differ from agency expectations.
• Where a competitive tender process is being undertaken, ensure that the information provided to potential tenders is transparent and equitable and includes all relevant information.  Where questions of clarity are asked, answer in a timely manner and make the information you provide to one party available to all potential parties (party- identifying details should not be disclosed however). Questions can be anticipated so consider using a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) approach. A fair and transparent process should be evident.
• The Official Information Act 1982 may be utilised by an unsuccessful tenderer to seek information about the process or another tenderer. There are provisions in the Act for information to be withheld (on grounds of commercial sensitivity, privacy etc). Legal advice should be sought in such instances. 
• As part of the initial contracting process with the successful contractor/s, identify via negotiation, the appropriate processes and formats in regard to intellectual property rights and the dissemination of research and evaluation results.
• Release research findings (and in appropriate formats) as agreed in the contract and with regard to the consent given by (and any additional guarantees given to) research participants.