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Recommendation 19
19
The Department had asked PSAA to continue as the appointing body for procuring audit services,...
Conclusion
The Department had asked PSAA to continue as the appointing body for procuring audit services, unlike the recommendation in Sir Tony’s review to create a new body as a system leader, an Office of Local Audit and Regulation, which would have had responsibility for procuring audit services.48 When we asked why the Department had taken a different approach, it explained that, in its view, including procurement within the system leader would have created a potential conflict of interest and it envisaged there would be a benefit from independence between the procurement process in PSAA, and the oversight of quality in ARGA.49