Managing Conflicts of Interest in Procurement

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This limited assurance review assessed if Parks Victoria and the former Department of Health and Human Services followed their procurement policies and procedures for their respective procurements of an archaeological surveyor and community service providers.

Appendix E. DJPR's procurement procedures

DJPR's procurement policy (April 2019) includes provision for management of critical incidents.

Section 3.5 provides information about exemptions. Section 3.5.2 explains that a critical incident is automatic grounds for an exemption from the prescribed market approach (amongst others). Section 3.5.3 offers a process for an exemption from using a mandatory SPC.

Section 6.1 includes information about the fundamental principle of probity.

Section 11 explains the requirements under a critical incident.