Total amount spent by MDC council for the BeforeUDig service
Request
I would like to request the total amount spent by your council for the BeforeUDig service per year for each of the past five years. Many territorial authorities are listed as 'members' on the BUD website. If your council is not currently a member/customer of BUD but used BUD in the past, please provide the most recent five years of data. If your council has never engaged BUD, please confirm this.
BeforeUDig provides services on behalf of councils, sharing its asset location plans with contractors who request the data for excavation works. Because there is no competition in the market for providing this asset location information - BeforeUDig is the only private supplier of such services in NZ - there should be no commercial sensitivity around releasing council spending on this service.
Response
Costs for the past 5 financial years including year to date for the 2025-2026 financial year, excluding gst.
- 2020-2021 $4,245.00
- 2021-2022 $3,160.00
- 2022-2023 $3,100.00
- 2023-2024 $3,184.27
- 2024-2025 $3,128.00
- 2025-2026 (year to date to January 2026) $1,775.01