Probity Audit and Advice

Our probity team comprises four, highly experienced professionals working exclusively for Government. We have managed over 500 probity service engagements including many highly complex and significant projects including:

• Public Private Partnership Projects – value >$3b
• Major Alliance projects – value $3.5b
• Major Government asset sales – value >$4b
• Design and construct procurements – value >$3b.
• Complex IT procurements

In its publication Probity and Probity Advising (November 2005) the Independent Commission Against Corruption describe a probity adviser as:

“an individual or organisation engaged to observe, review and provide guidance on the probity framework and/or processes of a project. Agencies use internal or external probity advisers to verify that the processes followed are consistent with government regulations, policies, guidelines and best practice principles. A probity adviser provides opinions and guidance on probity risks and issues that may arise during the process and confirms, in writing, whether the concluded process is consistent with the requirements outlined in a probity plan as well as general probity fundamentals. If probity requirements are not being or have not been met, the adviser identifies the non-conformities and any reasons for these in a written report, and if necessary, suggests solutions and monitors their implementation.
A probity adviser is chiefly concerned with ensuring the integrity of the procedures and processes of the project, rather than project outcomes. That is, the focus is on the means, not the ends of the project. The probity advising role is essentially preventive”.