Principle 6: Workshops are to adhere to confidentiality and intellectual property requirements

•  Commercial-in-confidence and intellectual property material will be treated appropriately by the government project team to ensure that a bidder's "competitive advantage" is protected. Although the design concepts to be presented by each bidder will be different, the approach taken by the government project team will be to focus discussion on whether the design will achieve the government's requirements in relation to the RFP.  Under no circumstances will any discussion of other bidder's concepts, designs or proposals be permitted and the government project team's participants in each workshop will be specifically briefed to ensure they do not inadvertently disclose information from another bid.

•  At the end of every workshop, the government project team will review the responses provided to the bidder. Where the Project Director (or where required on advice from the Probity Practitioner), considers that information has been provided to a bidder that was not included in the RFP, the relevant information will be circulated to all bidders unless by doing so, the Project Director (or where required on advice from the Probity Practitioner) considers it may breach confidentiality relating to a bidder's proposal.