Utah Admin. Code R33-24-106 - Personal Relationship, Favoritism, or Bias Participation Prohibitions
(1) Employees are
prohibited from participating in discussions or decisions relating to the
procurement, contracting or administration process if they have any type of
personal relationship, favoritism, or bias that would appear to a reasonable
person to influence their independence in performing their assigned duties and
responsibilities relating to the procurement process, contracting or contract
administration or prevent them from fairly and objectively evaluating a
proposal in response to a bid, RFP or other solicitation This provision shall
not be construed to prevent an employee from having a bias based on the
employee's review of a response to the solicitation in regard to the criteria
in the solicitation
(2) If an
employee has a personal relationship, favoritism, or bias toward any
individual, group, organization, or vendor responding to a bid, RFP or other
solicitation, the employee must make a written disclosure to the supervisor and
the supervisor shall take appropriate action, which may include recusing the
employee from discussions or decisions relating to the solicitation,
contracting or administration matter in question. This provision shall not be
construed to prevent an employee from having a bias based on the employee's
review of a response to the solicitation in regard to the criteria in the
solicitation.
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