Earlier today, the Office of the Independent Commissioner Against Corruption (ICAC) released a public report on the City of Darwin THRIVE procurement, after completing an investigation and undertaking natural justice processes.

An e-mail with attached letter from a party mentioned in the report, who was responding to the ICAC’s natural justice process, was classified by government computer security filters, automatically placed in a ‘junk’ e-mail folder and was not seen. As a result, the report incorrectly referred to ‘no response being provided by the party’.

Today the letter was brought to the ICAC’s attention by the party’s lawyer and the report was immediately removed from the OICAC’s website.

The ICAC takes their obligations under the Act extremely seriously and is rectifying this matter with the affected party, which may result in the report being reissued.

Accountability is a core ICAC value and internal processes have been reviewed to reduce the risk of this type of administrative error reoccurring.