Rule 19:
Responding to queries
Primary requirement
- Agencies must promptly respond to queries from suppliers and treat suppliers fairly when doing so.
Application
- Agencies must not:
- give information that might give a supplier an unfair advantage over the other suppliers when responding to a question
- discuss or disclose another supplier’s confidential or commercially sensitive information (Rule 5).
- Agencies must:
- make information provided in response to a query that is advantageous to a supplier/s available to all suppliers at the same time
- consider extending the deadline for suppliers’ responses if unable to reply to a question promptly or the response could result in suppliers needing to review and/or update their responses.