Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering Implicated by World Bank Financed Project
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#Procurement_Integrity_in_Public_Engineering_Implicated_by_World_Bank_Financed_Project
Properties
Instance of
ProcurementIntegrityinPublicEngineering
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProcurementIntegrityinPublicEngineering
Applied to
Procurement process for design and construction supervision of World Bank-financed hydroelectric project
Balancing with
Fairness in Professional Competition
Concrete expression
The hydroelectric project, financed in part by a World Bank loan, was subject to procurement integrity obligations that required the selection process to be conducted on a fair, competitive, qualification-based basis — obligations that were undermined by the joint venture's exploitation of insider public-employment advantages.
Confidence
0.82
Importance
medium
Interpretation
The involvement of World Bank financing amplifies the procurement integrity obligation by adding an international public interest dimension; the principle applies to the procuring foreign government agency as well as to the competing engineers.
Invoked by
Foreign Government Agency Client
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Tension resolution
Procurement integrity and fairness in competition are mutually reinforcing in this context; both point toward the same conclusion that the insider-advantage joint venture compromised the integrity of the selection process.
Source Evidence
Source text
An agency of a foreign government invited proposals from consulting engineering firms to complete the design and supervise the construction of a hydroelectric project which is being financed in part by a World Bank loan.
Text references
An agency of a foreign government invited proposals from consulting engineering firms to complete the design and supervise the construction of a hydroelectric project which is being financed in part by a World Bank loan.
TTL
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proeth:concreteexpression "The hydroelectric project, financed in part by a World Bank loan, was subject to procurement integrity obligations that required the selection process to be conducted on a fair, competitive, qualification-based basis — obligations that were undermined by the joint venture's exploitation of insider public-employment advantages." ;
proeth:confidence "0.82" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:08:17.013024+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:08:17.013024+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:interpretation "The involvement of World Bank financing amplifies the procurement integrity obligation by adding an international public interest dimension; the principle applies to the procuring foreign government agency as well as to the competing engineers." ;
proeth:invokedby "Foreign Government Agency Client",
"U.S. Agency Engineers Group" ;
proeth:principleclass "Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering" ;
proeth:sourcetext "An agency of a foreign government invited proposals from consulting engineering firms to complete the design and supervise the construction of a hydroelectric project which is being financed in part by a World Bank loan." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Procurement integrity and fairness in competition are mutually reinforcing in this context; both point toward the same conclusion that the insider-advantage joint venture compromised the integrity of the selection process." ;
proeth:textreferences "An agency of a foreign government invited proposals from consulting engineering firms to complete the design and supervise the construction of a hydroelectric project which is being financed in part by a World Bank loan." ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
102
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:08:17.013024+00:00
First case
102
Generated
2026-03-02T16:08:17.013024+00:00
Attributed to
Case 102 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:27:05.298946
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction