Probity Services

Ensuring organisations maintain the highest procurement standards through the provision of expert advice in probity.

Expertise

Contracting and Tendering Services Pty Ltd (CTS) is recognised as one of Australia’s leading management consulting firms specialising in procurement and probity.

Probity is defined as ‘confirmed integrity’ and ‘honesty’. We have expertise in:

  • publishing ‘Competitive Tendering and Contracting (CTC) Probity Procedures’ manuals
  • developing probity plans for major and/or contentious acquisitions
  • probity auditing – prior to and after the contract establishment phase, and throughout the procurement process
  • reviewing an organisation’s procurement practice for compliance with best practices
  • facilitating and assisting in developing an organisation’s procurement behaviours to ensure high standards of probity

Techniques and Models

CTS has developed a range of proprietary techniques and models used specifically for its probity services:

  • best practice compliance checklists
  • a model for testing the ethical health of an organisation’s procurement practice
  • a model for determining the likely success of an organisation’s outsourcing activities
  • a model which analyses the level of strategic development of an organisation

Software Development

CTS has developed leading edge Tender Evaluation software which is designed to provide integrity in the key decision making process. This software has been used by many organisations including the Victorian WorkCover Authority, Telstra and the Department of Defence in outsourcing projects.

Experience

CTS provides qualified and experienced consultants for its range of probity services:

  • reviewing an organisation’s procurement practice for compliance with best practices
  • each consultant has held a senior management position in procurement in both the public and private sectors
  • each consultant has provided management training services in the area of procurement probity
  • CTS has long term contracts and arrangements with organisations in the provision of probity services
  • CTS’s consultants have lectured at University on procurement probity issues

Key Achievements

CTS’s key achievements include having:

  • published a ‘Competitive Tendering and Contracting (CTC) Probity Procedures’ manual
  • conducted a probity audit of a $5 million tendering process following complaints to the Ombudsman and relevant Minister
  • prepared Probity Plans for several strategic tendering processes including a major controversial, public tender
  • trained the Department of Defence’s Audit Branch throughout Australia in auditing procurement arrangements
  • facilitated a large public sector organisation’s procurement department regarding ethics and probity standards, which resulted in agreed work place standards of behaviour
  • conducted an evaluation of a major tender under dispute on behalf of the Contracts (probity) Committee of a large Statutory Authority