Attachment_J.3_-_Ethics_in_Public_Contracting.pdf

ATTACHMENT

J.3

ETHICS IN PUBLIC CONTRACTING

A. To achieve the purpose of this section, all employees and persons doing business with the Court shall be required to observe the ethical standards prescribed herein. The Executive Officer shall make available and disseminate to every person doing business with the, Court, and to every Court managerial employee with procurement responsibilities, the requirements of this section.

B. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee to participate directly or indirectly in a procurement when the employee knows that the employee or any member of the employee's immediate family has a financial interest pertaining to the procurement. When a Court employee knows that he or she has an actual or potential conflict of interest, or when the Executive Officer has determined that an actual conflict of interest exists, such employee shall be disqualified from the procurement involved.

C. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for person to offer, give, or agree to give any employee or former employee, or for any employee to solicit, demand, accept, or agree to accept from another person, a gratuity or an offer of employment in connection with any decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, preparation of any part of procurement.

D. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any payment, gratuity, or offer of employment to be made by or on behalf of a subcontractor under a contract to the prime contractor, or higher tier subcontractor, as an inducement for the award of a subcontractor order.

E. It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee, former employee or any other person knowingly to use confidential information for actual or anticipated personal gain. No employee or officer of the Court shall serve on the board of directors or other governing body (whether or not compensated) of any contractor with whom the Court has a current contractual relationship if the individual's responsibilities with the Court entail the letting or management of the contract.

BY: _______________________________________

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