Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT (JUDICIAL REVIEW) ACT 2018 - SECT 20

    If :

  (a)   a supplier makes a complaint under section   18 to the accountable authority of a relevant Commonwealth entity about conduct in relation to a procurement ; and

  (b)   when the complaint is made, no public interest certificate is in force in relation to the procurement;

the accountable authority must suspend the procurement until the earliest of the following times:

  (c)   if the supplier informs the accountable authority that the supplier considers the complaint to be resolved--the time when the supplier so informs the accountable authority;

  (d)   if the supplier withdraws the complaint--the time when the supplier withdraws the complaint;

  (e)   if the accountable authority issues a public interest certificate in relation to the procurement --the time when the accountable authority issues the certificate ;

  (f)   if , in proceedings instituted in a court under this Act in relation to the conduct , the court makes either of the following findings:

  (i)   that the conduct was in contravention of the relevant Commonwealth Procurement Rules (so far as those rules relate to a covered procurement);

  (ii)   that the conduct was not in contravention of the relevant Commonwealth Procurement Rules (so far as those rules relate to a covered procurement);

    the time when the court makes the finding concerned.