Questions that might reveal a hidden interest by project or government officials in a supplier, contractor or subcontractor include:
- Do you know or suspect, or have you heard, that any project or government official, or any relative of such official, has a hidden interest in a supplier, contractor or subcontractor?
- Do you know, or suspect, or have you heard, that any official:
- Owns an outside businesses or consulting practice?
- Has family or other ties with any supplier, contractor or subcontractor?
- Has discussed employment with any supplier, contractor or subcontractor?
- Does any official appear to be living beyond his or her means?
- Has any supplier, contractor or subcontractor received:
- Unusually favorable treatment from any official?
- An unusually large volume of business?
- Unusually high prices?
- Does any supplier provide an unusually wide variety of goods or services?
- Has any official moved or consolidated a large amount of business from previous suppliers to a new supplier?
- Does any official appear to be living beyond his or her means?
- Have any officials failed to file the required conflict of interest and financial disclosure statements?
- Are controls and procedures to prevent hidden interests in place and enforced?