It is the seventh time Mr Acklin's company - Bill Acklin Entertainments - has won the contract since 2000, with each worth between $30,000 and $40,000.
Mr Acklin told the Otago Daily Times yesterday he was confident the successful bid would be approved by the Office of the Auditor-general, as the previous six had been.
As a councillor, he was still required to seek the Auditor-general's approval for the contract, because it was worth more than $25,000 and linked to the council, which owned the Dunedin (New Zealand) Masters Games Trust franchise, he said.
"The Auditor-general has signed it off every other time, because it's gone through a tender process and I have, as a councillor, absolutely no involvement in considering, voting or whatever to do with choosing this sort of co-ordinator," he said.
The games will be staged in Dunedin from February 4-12, and the games village will be based at the Forsyth Barr Stadium's east stand area.
The contract will see Cr Acklin acting as entertainment co-ordinator, arranging and managing performances from a variety of acts from Dunedin and elsewhere.
His own band would also perform twice as part of the contract, he said.
The $40,000 fee was paid for all entertainers, as well as travel and other associated costs, with only a "very small" slice going to him, he said.
It was the second time this month Mr Acklin had been forced to defend his dual role as councillor and entertainer, after he also won the contract to entertain Rugby World Cup revellers at the Dunedin Town Hall fan zone.
Games chairman Cr John Bezett said in a statement yesterday Mr Acklin's entertainment programme "clearly stood out" and was the unanimous choice of the selection panel.
Details of the entertainment programme would not be released until November 1, he said.
