HP faces 10-year ban as Canadian government’s technology supplier
Source: The Globe and Mail
Hewlett-Packard Co., one of the leading technology suppliers to the Canadian government, is facing a possible 10-year ban on selling products and services to Ottawa in the wake of a high-profile U.S. bribery conviction.
The recent criminal conviction, involving bribes paid to Russian government officials, marks the first major test of strict new Canadian integrity rules quietly introduced in March by Public Works and Government Services.
Under the new regime, companies face an automatic ban on future government contracts if they or any of their affiliates are convicted of a list of various crimes, such as bribery, even if those crimes occurred outside Canada.
... “If a company the size of HP ends up being unable to do business with the federal government, then a lot of companies are going to be sitting up and taking much more notice,” said Peter Dent, a forensic accountant at Deloitte and Touche and the chairman and president of Transparency International Canada.
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