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Q: During a recent meeting with
my contact at a government
customer, the agency
representative oered to disclose
information about a competitor’s
bid on an active procurement.
Can I obtain that information and
use it to improve BlackBerry’s
bid on the same procurement?
A: No. We cannot seek confidential,
sensitive or otherwise proprietary
information about a government
procurement – or any other procurement
for that matter – in circumstances
where we know or have reason to believe
disclosure of the information is not
authorized. This includes information
internal to the government or relating
to a competitor such as bid, proposal or
pricing information. You must contact
the Legal Department, the Integrity &
Compliance Oce or Government Sales
in circumstances where such an oer to
disclose information is made to you, or
where such information is inadvertently
disclosed to you, whether the oer or
disclosure is made by the government,
a competitor or some other third party.
A: The rules applicable to the bidding and vendor
selection process may limit the type or amount
of contact BlackBerry can have with agency
representatives during the active procurement
process. Depending on the rules applicable to
the agency, it may or may not be permissible for
BlackBerry to pay for even a modest meal, regardless
of whether it occurs during an active procurement
process. The fact that BlackBerry does have a bid
pending with the agency heightens the risk that its
provision of a thing of value such as a meal to an
agency ocial could be construed as an eort to
improperly influence the bidding process. The sales
representative must obtain advance approval from
the Integrity & Compliance Oce before paying for
any meal of, or providing any other thing of value
such as a gift or entertainment to, any government
ocial. It is never appropriate for such a benefit
to be oered or conferred in order to improperly
influence a government ocial.
Q: BlackBerry recently submitted a bid on a procurement by a government agency.
Would it be permissible for the sales representative primarily responsible for the
account to pay for a lunch with his counterpart at the agency?
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