Procuring products, services, and solutions, and getting appropriate contracts in place for their delivery, can involve a good deal of work and a significant amount of risk. Whether it's crafting your notice of procurement, sorting out your approach to evaluation, preparing a contract that's fit for purpose, or negotiating it with one or more providers, there are outcomes to achieve, risks to assess and mitigate, and timeframes to meet.
I help agencies and businesses navigate that terrain, with the depth that comes from doing this work for two decades, and with the legal-tech to move faster where it makes sense.
01 – CAPABILITIES
How I can help.
Three pillars covering the full procurement lifecycle – from shaping strategy, through drafting and negotiation, to supporting the contract after signing.
02 – EXPERIENCE
Selected experience.
A handful of representative projects, anonymised as appropriate, all touching technology or digital government.
CASE 01
Cross-government contracts & MOUs
Drafted multiple cross-government collaborative contracts and the MOUs or participation terms that sit alongside them, including the Collaborative Marketplace Agreement and most Channel Terms.
Role: External process advice, contract drafting, negotiation
CASE 03
Retrofitting waterfall IT contracts with an agile delivery schedule
Retrofitted two large waterfall-style IT contracts with an agile delivery schedule, enabling the client to select between waterfall or agile depending on the nature of the development.
Role: External counsel, restructuring contract elements for agile
CASE 02
National online training solution
Drafted and negotiated the contract for a national online training solution relating to a security technology that touches the lives of many New Zealanders.
Role: External counsel, contract-type selection and drafting
CASE 04
Transitioning a mission-critical system to offshore cloud
Advised a Crown entity on the contractual arrangements for transitioning a mission-critical enterprise-wide system from an on-premise solution to an offshore cloud-based platform.
Role: External counsel on contractual workstream
POLICIES, PLANNING & SOURCING
PANELS, SYNDICATED CONTRACTS, AND COMMON CAPABILITY FRAMEWORKS
SERVICES CONTRACT / MSAS AND SOWS
INTER-AGENCY ARRANGEMENTS AND FUNCTION TRANSFERS
SAAS TERMS AND API TERMS
COURSE CREATOR TERMS
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Richard has an incisive mind and is able to translate extremely complex commercial supply strategies into manageable contractual frameworks.
Former Manager, AOG Supply Strategy
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS
03 – TOOLS I BUILT
Tools that speed up the work.
I've built 12+ automations to speed up contract drafting work and can readily develop more, whether for myself, clients, or customers.
Contract Foundry
A document-automation platform built specifically for some of the kinds of public-sector contracting I do. Each builder walks the user through a structured set of questions, then produces a solid first draft ready for review or circulation.
"A first draft MSA, with additional clauses and a selection of SOW templates relevant to the context, can be produced in minutes instead of several hours or days. In case a client was astonished to be able to get a set of panel MSAs in place faster than ever before."
Have a contracting matter in motion?
Happy to jump on Teams or Zoom to talk it through. Just a 15-min chat to see if I'm the right fit.