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Professional Standards and Ethics Flashcards

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  1. After contract award, a losing bidder requests a debriefing. What is the best practice?

    Answer: Explain the strengths and weaknesses of their own bid against the published criteria

    Debriefings explain how a bidder's proposal scored against the criteria without disclosing competitors' confidential information.

  2. An evaluator discovers that an evaluation criterion was applied differently to two bidders. What should happen?

    Answer: Raise it with the evaluation chair and probity advisor so it can be corrected consistently

    Inconsistent application of criteria must be escalated and corrected transparently to preserve fairness and defensibility.

  3. Why is it inappropriate to change evaluation criteria or their weightings after bids are received?

    Answer: It may favor a known bidder and undermines fairness and predictability

    Changing criteria after seeing bids allows manipulation of the outcome and breaches equal treatment.

  4. A public official's spouse owns shares in a construction firm that is part of a bidding consortium. What is the appropriate response?

    Answer: Disclose the interest and recuse from decisions related to that procurement

    Interests of close family members are treated as the official's own conflicts and require disclosure and recusal.

  5. What does the term 'collusion' refer to in a PPP tender?

    Answer: Bidders secretly agreeing on prices or who will win

    Collusion, or bid rigging, is an illegal agreement among competitors to manipulate tender outcomes.

  6. Which mechanism best enables employees to report suspected misconduct in a PPP program without fear of retaliation?

    Answer: A protected whistleblower channel with confidentiality safeguards

    Protected, confidential whistleblowing channels encourage reporting of wrongdoing and guard against retaliation.

  7. A PPP professional is asked to adjust public sector comparator assumptions so the PPP option appears to offer better value for money. What is the ethical response?

    Answer: Refuse and ensure assumptions are objective, evidence-based, and documented

    Professional integrity requires objective analysis; manipulating assumptions to justify a predetermined outcome misleads decision-makers.