Post-Public-Service Conflict Avoidance — U.S. Agency Engineers Hydroelectric Full Design Contract
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#Post-Public-Service_Conflict_Avoidance_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers_Hydroelectric_Full_Design_Contract
Properties
Instance of
Post-Public-ServiceRecusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Post-Public-ServiceRecusalObligation
Case context
Engineers who prepared the basic plans for the hydroelectric project in their public agency capacity resigned and immediately competed for the full design contract through a private joint venture, without a cooling-off period or documented recusal safeguards.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Obligated party
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Obligation statement
The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated, upon transitioning from their federal agency roles, to recuse themselves from competitive engagement for the hydroelectric project full design contract — or at minimum to establish and disclose adequate conflict-of-interest safeguards — given that they had held public positions with direct responsibility for the basic plans of that same project.
Temporal scope
Immediately following resignation from the U.S. federal agency through the contract award
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineers Post-Employment Conflict of Interest on Same Project, Government-Designed Project Private Execution Transition
derivedFromPrinciple
Post-Public-Service Conflict Avoidance Violated by U.S. Agency Engineers
Source Evidence
Source text
the personal and intimate knowledge of the project which the employees gained from their work on the preliminary design of the project and the acquaintance they made with the representatives of the owner of the project gave them many distinct advantages
Text references
the personal and intimate knowledge of the project which the employees gained from their work on the preliminary design of the project and the acquaintance they made with the representatives of the owner of the project gave them many distinct advantages
the possibility of the existence of one or more of these facets raises a cloud of doubt as to the purity of the enterprise.
TTL
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationclass "Post-Public-Service Recusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated, upon transitioning from their federal agency roles, to recuse themselves from competitive engagement for the hydroelectric project full design contract — or at minimum to establish and disclose adequate conflict-of-interest safeguards — given that they had held public positions with direct responsibility for the basic plans of that same project." ;
proeth:sourcetext "the personal and intimate knowledge of the project which the employees gained from their work on the preliminary design of the project and the acquaintance they made with the representatives of the owner of the project gave them many distinct advantages" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Immediately following resignation from the U.S. federal agency through the contract award" ;
proeth:textreferences "the personal and intimate knowledge of the project which the employees gained from their work on the preliminary design of the project and the acquaintance they made with the representatives of the owner of the project gave them many distinct advantages",
"the possibility of the existence of one or more of these facets raises a cloud of doubt as to the purity of the enterprise." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
102
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:18:07.635149+00:00
First case
102
Generated
2026-03-02T16:18:07.635149+00:00
Attributed to
Case 102 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:27:05.307593
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction