Widespread ‘tender splitting’ in government procurement flagged by SIU
However, the SIU’s latest warning puts the controversy into a wider context: staying below a procurement threshold may be lawful when transactions are genuinely separate, but deliberately structuring related requirements to remain below that threshold can undermine the competitive procurement system.
The splitting of government contracts to circumvent competitive tender processes is not an isolated procurement irregularity but a common trend identified in investigations by the graft-busting Special Investigating Unit (SIU).
Red flags for tender splitting The latest findings raise a broader question: how many other government departments may be using technically separate RFQs to procure what are effectively recurring or related services?
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