FINAL ACTIVITY 3 – Probity and Ethics Compliance Stream C & D (C000497) – Canberra

How can you personally contribute to an ethical public-sector workplace?

During a tender evaluation you receive an email from one of the Minister’s advisers. He says that the Minister is aware of the tender evaluation process and wants to put in a good word for one of the tenderers. She personally knows the CEO of the company and has been impressed with previous work they have done.
How will you deal with this email? Make sure your answer considers the factors of probity and the political context.

You are a senior member of a tender evaluation team and one of the members (this is their first experience with tender evaluation) appears to have developed a bias against one of the tenderers. They told you that they are consistently scoring them lower than all the other team members, and in evaluation deliberations and discussion, they are very vocal with negative criticism of the tender response.
• How should you deal with the probity and ethics issues in this situation to assist the team to achieve a more consistent and fair evaluation?