Ethics - Council & You
Council is committed to ethical business conduct at all times and requires companies tendering to Council to do the same. Any anti-competitive behaviour or other practices that denies other participants legitimate business opportunities is unacceptable to the City of Sydney.
The City of Sydney follows these ethical principles:
- Parties must conduct the tendering process with honesty and fairness at all levels
- Parties must conform to all legal obligations
- Parties must not submit tenders without a firm intention to proceed
- Parties must not engage in any practice, including improper inducements, which gives one party an improper advantage over another
- Tenderers must be prepared to attest to their probity and not to engage in any form of collusive practice
- Conditions of tendering will be the same for each tenderer on any particular tender
- Evaluation of tenders will be based on the conditions of tendering and selection criteria defined in the tender documents
- Parties must not disclose confidential or proprietary information
- Any party with a conflict of interest must declare that interest as soon as the conflict is known to that party.
Council is bound by the rules of the Local Government Act 1993 and the Local Government Tendering Regulation 1999.
