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PROCUREMENT INTEGRITY
Procurement integrity regulations
encourage contractors to compete
fairly for government contracts and
prohibits unethical conduct on the part
of both contractors and government
procurement officials. The laws
prohibit government contractors from:
Offering or discussing
employment or business
opportunities with government
procurement officials.
Offering, giving, or promising
to give money, gratuities, or
anything of value to such officials.
Asking or obtaining from a
government employee any
proprietary information or
source selection information
related to an ongoing
government procurement.
Disclosing proprietary or source
selection information to anyone
who is not on the government’s
list of approved persons.
In general, proprietary information
is information that is owned by a
company and that the company
tries to protect from disclosure,
marks as proprietary, and believes
would cause business injury if it
became known to its competitors.
Source selection information is
information which the government
has developed to use in conducting
a particular procurement and the
release of which could jeopardize
the competitive integrity of the
procurement. Examples include bid
prices submitted in proposals, source
selection plans, technical evaluations,
and competitive range determinations.
Your Responsibilities
Do NOT give gifts or money to
procurement officials.
Prior to award, do NOT ask for
a competing contractor’s
proprietary information or
source selection information.
If you realize that you have
source selection or proprietary
information related to an ongoing
procurement, do NOT look at it
or allow unauthorized access to
the information.
If you have inadvertently
received or seen source selection
or proprietary information
related to an ongoing
procurement, contact the
BBNC Compliance Department.
BBNC Code of Ethics | Ethics Hotline: [phone] | Effective May 17, 2019 | www.bbnc.net
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