(1) A
consultant shall provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at
all times hold the client’s interests paramount, without any consideration for
future work, and strictly avoid conflicts with other assignments or their own
corporate interests.
(2) No
consultant shall be hired for any assignment that would, by its nature, be in
conflict with their prior or current obligations to other clients, or that may
place him in a position of not being able to carry out the assignment in the
best interest of the public body.
(3)
Without limitation on the
generality as provided for in paragraphs (1) and (2), a consultant shall not be
hired under the following circumstances –
(a) a firm which has been engaged by the
public body to provide goods or works for a project, and any of its affiliates,
shall be disqualified from providing consulting services for the same project;
(b) a firm hired to provide consulting services
for the preparation or implementation of a project, and any of its affiliates,
shall be disqualified from subsequently providing goods or works or services
related to the initial assignment, other than in the case when, subject to
satisfactory performance of the initial assignment, it is essential for
continuity that there be a continuation of the firm’s earlier consulting
services for the same project.
(4)
Paragraph (3) shall not apply to
firms (consultants, contractors, or suppliers) that together are performing the
supplier’s obligations under a turnkey or design-and-build contract.