Revolving Door Conflict Disclosure — U.S. Agency Engineers Hydroelectric Project
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#Revolving_Door_Conflict_Disclosure_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers_Hydroelectric_Project
Properties
Instance of
RevolvingDoorConflictDisclosureObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RevolvingDoorConflictDisclosureObligation
Case context
Former U.S. Agency engineers who had prepared the basic plans for the hydroelectric project transitioned to private practice and competed for the full design contract without documented disclosure of the structural insider advantage their prior public role conferred.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Obligated party
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Obligation statement
The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to proactively disclose to the project owner and all relevant stakeholders the nature and extent of their prior public agency role — including their preparation of the basic plans and personal acquaintance with the owner's representatives — so that the conflict of interest arising from their revolving-door transition could be identified, evaluated, and appropriately managed before the competitive process proceeded.
Temporal scope
Prior to and during the competitive proposal submission for the hydroelectric project design contract
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
US Agency Engineers Revolving Do or Transition
derivedFromPrinciple
Revolving Do or Integrity Violation by U.S. Agency Engineers
Source Evidence
Source text
It seems axiomatic that 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 over any other firms.
Text references
It seems axiomatic that 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 over any other firms.
The crucial question is, therefore, 'Were these advantages used unfairly?'
TTL
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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:obligationstatement "The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to proactively disclose to the project owner and all relevant stakeholders the nature and extent of their prior public agency role — including their preparation of the basic plans and personal acquaintance with the owner's representatives — so that the conflict of interest arising from their revolving-door transition could be identified, evaluated, and appropriately managed before the competitive process proceeded." ;
proeth:sourcetext "It seems axiomatic that 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 over any other firms." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Prior to and during the competitive proposal submission for the hydroelectric project design contract" ;
proeth:textreferences "It seems axiomatic that 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 over any other firms.",
"The crucial question is, therefore, 'Were these advantages used unfairly?'" ;
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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
2026-03-02T16:27:05.307439
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction