A further look into the awarding of recent Whanganui District Council contracts has found increasing the buy local premium would not have changed the outcome of any tender process.
The council has a buy local premium which allows it to award contracts to local businesses, even if with a higher tender, as long as it is within 5 per cent (up to $100,000) or $5000 (over $10,000) of an out of town tender.
In May the council's strategy and finance committee voted to increase the premium to 5 per cent (up to $1 million) or $50,000 for contracts of more than $1m.
But the decision was reversed by full council in July.
At Tuesday's committee meeting finance general manager Mike Fermor said a deeper dig into recent council contracts has found the increase would not have affected the outcome.