The State may conduct independent research regarding the Respondent and the information contained in the Proposal. The State reserves the right to take into account any matters revealed as a result of its probity and security investigations in evaluating Proposals.
The State will be under no obligation to provide Respondents with details of the results of the probity and security investigations. The State reserves the right to defer or cancel the acceptance of a particular Proposal, or take such other action as it considers appropriate, in light of the information which it receives as a result of conducting probity and security investigations.