The trusted advisor to NZ
councils on greenspace
management.
So you can focus on delivering excellence.
Independent advisory for New Zealand local authorities - council-side only. No panel discounts. No contractor conflicts. No recreating the wheel.
Procurement and technical advice usually arrive from two different specialists.
Greenspace is a quiet line item until something goes wrong - a sports field closes mid-winter, a contract underperforms, a ratepayer or a sports club complains, a community board asks why the budget keeps growing.
That’s the moment most council managers reach for one of two specialists: a procurement advisor who can run the tender process, or a technical expert who can diagnose the operational problem. Almost no one offers both. We do.
Greenspace & Co. sits at the intersection of procurement fluency and technical credibility - we write tenders that hold up because we understand what’s being delivered, and we design the systems, specifications, and KPIs that make sure the contract works once it’s signed.
The result is advice that joins up - strategy that doesn’t fall apart at the operational level, and operational fixes that don’t get undone at the next contract renewal.
Four pillars on a
smarter foundation.
Most engagements draw from more than one pillar - and every one of them now sits on the same foundation. Procurement, sports turf, amenity, and heritage biological are the four domain pillars; smart systems and AI is the technology layer underneath - how a hands-on, practical practice uses technology to deliver more value across all four.
Procurement Advisory
Tenders that survive contact with reality. RFP drafting, evaluation panel support, panel-of-suppliers design, contract-form selection, and probity - scoped specifically to parks, sports fields, amenity, and arboriculture contracts.
- Tender strategy & RFP drafting
- Evaluation panel support
- Panel-of-suppliers design
- Bringing services back in-house
- Contract form & probity advice
Sports Turf Specialist
Why your fields aren’t performing - and what it costs to fix. Independent performance assessments, renovation programme design, irrigation and drainage advice, and capital cases written to be defended in front of elected members.
- Field performance assessments
- Renovation & upgrade programmes
- Irrigation & drainage advice
- Technical advice
- Capital business cases
Amenity Horticulture
Service levels that match your budget - and plantings that actually thrive. Levels-of-service framework design, maintenance specification writing, KPI and reporting design, and contractor performance reviews built to plug into your asset management plan, not sit beside it.
- Levels-of-service frameworks
- Maintenance specifications
- Planting design & plant sourcing
- Contractor performance reviews
- KPI & reporting design
Heritage Biological Advisory
Biological soil treatments, judged on the evidence - not the marketing. Independent assessment of heritage biological products and programmes, site suitability reviews, trial design, and procurement integration - so the claims have to be delivered, not just printed on the bag.
- Product & programme assessment
- Site suitability reviews
- Specification & trial design
- Procurement integration & monitoring
- Independent review of results
How we work, in four sentences.
Independent. Council-side only.
No contractor relationships in the council environment, no supplier panels, no commission arrangements. It’s a small industry - but every engagement answers to one client only: the council. That’s the whole model.
Specific, not strategic-flavoured.
Real recommendations, real numbers, real contract clauses. If you wanted a glossy framework with no answers in it, you’d have called the big four.
Written for the people who defend the budget.
Outputs are designed to be quoted in council reports and stand up at workshop. Not slide-ware. Documents that do work.
We share the playbook.
Templates, frameworks, learning - passed across so you don’t keep paying us to recreate the wheel. The goal is a council that needs us less, not more.
What good advice actually does.
“The advice was specific, the RFP was tight, and the evaluation panel knew what to look for. We got a contractor we can actually work with.”
“They told us what was wrong with the fields, what it would cost to fix, and how to write the contract so it stayed fixed. Three things, joined up.”
“The advice was specific, the RFP was tight, and the evaluation panel knew what to look for. We got a contractor we can actually work with.”
“They told us what was wrong with the fields, what it would cost to fix, and how to write the contract so it stayed fixed. Three things, joined up.”
A specialist practice, not a consultancy.
Out of the weeds.
Into excellence.
If you’ve a tender to sharpen, a sports field that isn’t performing, or a contract that isn’t delivering - start a conversation. The first call is free.