(1) Consultants shall provide professional, objective and impartial consulting services in the best interest of the public body receiving the consultation.
(2) Consultants should not act in a way that conflicts with their current or future work while providing consulting services.
(3) If the nature of the work related to consulting services is such that it conflicts with the past or present obligations of the consultant to any other client or if he is unable to complete the work in the best interest of the concerned public body, then he cannot be appointed as a consultant. Example: A consultant appointed to prepare an engineering design of a project to be appointed as a consultant for the environmental assessment of the same project or a consultant for the privatization of a government-owned organization to be appointed as a consultant to the buyer who purchases such property or to purchase such property in the name of himself or his close relative or a partner of his organization It cannot be allowed. But this arrangement will not apply in case of turn key contract or design and construction contract.
(4) Firms that provide goods or construction work for a project and other organizations or individuals related to it, consulting firms or other organizations or individuals related to such projects appointed to provide consulting services for the same project and to prepare or implement a plan Can't supply goods for.