Did DoI satisfactorily implement the probity plan?
Using DoI’s 9 probity documents, we identified the core processes that DoI needed to implement to ensure that it maintained appropriate standards of probity. These processes can be broadly described as those for the tender procedures and practices, maintaining confidentiality, communications and the security of, and access to, franchisees’ documents. These are discussed below. Managing conflicts of interest, which is also a core probity requirement, is discussed separately at section 7.4 of this report. Tender Procedures and Practices Manual The Tender Procedures and Practices Manual was referred to at length in DoI’s probity plan. It was intended to set out detailed rules and guidelines about (among other things) handling documents and confidential information, managing conflicts of interest and the conduct of meetings with franchisees. The manual was not completed. DoI told us that it had been subsumed into the other probity documents. We examined the other 8 probity documents to see
