Part 13: General Schedule 7: Discretionary exclusion grounds Professional misconduct
Paragraph 11 designates professional misconduct as a discretionary ground for exclusion. In order to meet the ground, the misconduct must be sufficiently serious as to bring the supplier’s integrity into question, even where the misconduct was committed by a connected person. Examples of professional misconduct are given including dishonesty, impropriety (such as improper performance of a public function as defined in the Bribery Act 2010) and serious breaches of ethical or professional standards applicable to the supplier. These standards might be set out by a regulator for the supplier’s profession, or in a voluntary code of conduct to which the supplier has signed up.