The ‘pleasant’ 2022 letter to beleaguered consultancy agency PwC reminded it to not use confidential authorities data to solicit additional work.
After PwC used confidential authorities data to solicit extra work from a division, the federal government despatched the consulting agency a “pleasant” letter reminding it to not do it once more and thanking the agency for its efforts.
The consulting agency, which had been engaged as a “strategic accomplice” of the Division of Agriculture, Water and the Surroundings as a part of a $40 million contract, was warned in November 2021 over “excessive ranges of direct sourcing and issues across the strategic accomplice utilizing confidential data to make unsolicited proposals”.
The warning got here after “an occasion the place the strategic accomplice supplied an Data Expertise resolution to [the department] because of insights gained by the strategic accomplice agency from attending [executive leadership team] conferences,” a current auditor-general report mentioned.
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