Kiwi businesses will get a more streamlined process when bidding for Government contracts

The 71 rules a business must follow to be awarded a government contract, is dropping to 47.

It's also introducing a new economic benefit test - which will consider the wider benefit to New Zealand when awarding contracts to Kiwi firms.

Building Industry Federation chief executive Julien Leys says some of the rules are very prescriptive.

He says they create a burden rather than focusing on what the company has to offer.