One of the noblest functions of government is securing for its citizens their individual and collective well-being. This can be achieved through honouring and safeguarding human dignity and the constructive mediation between individual freedoms and collective action. When government succeeds, this assures the social and ecological integrity of the community. In every profession, there is both the need and call for the people within that profession to conform their behaviour to certain ethical standards. Ethics is the code of conduct these professionals have adopted in order to regulate the practice of their profession. However, ethics also reaches to a level of unstated moral principles and a sense of what is right and wrong. In contemporary South Africa, a need exists for ethical and transparent public sector procurement management in all spheres of government. Evidence of this is found in official documents, court cases and in the