Set high standards for conduct and build an integrity culture reflecting public sector values. Strengthen staff understanding and organisational capability. Achieve transparent and defensible procurement outcomes.

Independent advice from our reputable industry specialists will make your processes more efficient and your outcomes more cost-effective.

What is probity?

Probity is integrity, uprightness and honesty demonstrated by proper and ethical conduct in the procurement sector, and propriety in dealings with the market. It involves ethical behaviour upholding public values, promoting impartiality, accountability and transparency.

What are the benefits?

  • Safeguards your reputation for integrity
  • Ensures that you meet expected standards of transparency, accountability and ethical conduct
  • Helps you withstand scrutiny of a complaint or audit
  • Ensures suppliers’ confidence in your processes and improves competitiveness
  • Achieves more equitable and more cost-efficient outcomes for all participants
  • Minimises complaints and criticism
  • Helps your activities to withstand scrutiny of an audit or review.

What probity services do we provide?

  • Probity audit and advisory services
  • Developing policy and guidelines that embed public sector values in your organisation
  • Advising on and monitoring probity risks in procurement and other processes
  • Providing independent and impartial probity guidance and advice
  • Building practical knowledge about public sector values in your organisation
  • Customising approaches to manage conflict of interest
  • Providing specialist advice on confidentiality, information security and privacy.

Our probity audit and advisory services help clients meet government probity standards especially regarding conflict of interest, confidentiality, ethical conduct and corruption risks. Mindful that the community expects transparency, accountability and high standards of commercial conduct, CourtHeath protects public sector clients from reputational damage.

Our expert probity advice contributes directly to managing risks. We provide probity advisory and audit services for competitive processes including tenders and grants across a range of sectors including construction, general and professional services and ICT.

We work collaboratively with clients in advisory engagements to design practical and efficient probity processes.

On assurance and audit engagements our independent and impartial opinion provides decision-makers with confidence about the propriety of processes that lead to the recommendations they are considering.

CourtHeath has been appointed to provide probity services in both the advisory and audit categories of the Victorian government Professional Advisory Services State Purchase Contract.

To view our probity services brochure, please click below

CourtHeath Probity Brochure

 

To obtain a copy of our latest Corporate Capability Statement for Probity Services, please email info@courtheath.com.au