CCC report revealed that western Australia state local government public officials paid too much on toner. Personnel shelled at least the odds for the cartridges more than $ 415 000 from the company participated in a three-year period received gift.
Officers who ordered the toner received gift vouchers, iPods, MP4 players, digital camcorders and LCD TVs. Director of the CCC corruption prevention Roger Watson said in most cases the employees did not report the gifts to their employers. The report also found that the Victoria-based company used "aggressive sales techniques to pressure junior purchasing officers into buying quantities of toner cartridges their organisations often did not need".
Toner was sold at up to five times the price of that available through government purchasing arrangements, the report shows. False claims relating the performance of the toner cartridges were also identified in the report.
CCC certification tested cartridges can print 30,000 pages were sold. However, they are an average of only 7,400 pages acartridge when tested.
Cabinet office minister Francis Maude said the deal was a "good start" for Government Procurement, a body established to negotiate toner cartridge contracts at a single price for the whole of government.
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