Documents relating to the outcomes of a PID Investigation

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This FOI release contains ABS guidance material on procurement conflicts of interest and unsolicited offers, plus a PID Act survey return and attachment. The guidance defines actual, potential and perceived conflicts, lists options for managing them (restricting, recruiting, removing, relinquishing, resigning), and sets out how unsolicited offers should be referred to the Procurement Team and assessed for uniqueness, value for money and due diligence. The survey return reports on an ABS investigation completed on 12 November 2024 under section 51 of the Public Interest Disclosure Act 2013, finding conduct constituting maladministration and an abuse of public trust. Four recommendations concern conflict of interest training, contract documentation and record-keeping, conflict declarations in contract engagements, and contract governance for multi-supplier arrangements and unsolicited approaches, with due dates from December 2024 to March 2025. No statistical collection, dataset or personal information is disclosed.