US-Agency-Engineers-International-Procurement-Competitive-Integrity
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#US-Agency-Engineers-International-Procurement-Competitive-Integrity
Properties
Instance of
InternationalEngineeringProcurementCompetitiveIntegrityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#InternationalEngineeringProcurementCompetitiveIntegrityObligation
Case context
The hydroelectric project was financed in part by a World Bank loan and involved an international procurement process; the engineers' use of insider knowledge and relationships derived from their public agency role distorted the fairness of that international competitive process.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Obligation statement
The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to pursue the hydroelectric project design contract exclusively through merit-based, qualification-based, and honest competitive means — refraining from leveraging insider knowledge of publicly-funded basic plans and personal relationships with the foreign government agency's representatives to gain structural competitive advantage in the international procurement process.
Temporal scope
Throughout the proposal and contract negotiation process with the foreign government
Relationships
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
Several engineers in the employ of the U.S. Agency responsible for the basic plans negotiated with at least two engineering firms with the intent of taking part in the design and supervision of the work
TTL
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case102:US-Agency-Engineers-International-Procurement-Competitive-Integrity a proeth:InternationalEngineeringProcurementCompetitiveIntegrityObligation,
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rdfs:label "US-Agency-Engineers-International-Procurement-Competitive-Integrity" ;
proeth-core:competesWith <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#NSPE_Policy_52_Mobility_Right_Ethics_Conditioned_Exercise_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers> ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case102:Owner_Relationship_Leveraged_in_Post-Departure_Competition,
case102:Project_Insider_Knowledge_Competitive_Advantage_Active ;
proeth:casecontext "The hydroelectric project was financed in part by a World Bank loan and involved an international procurement process; the engineers' use of insider knowledge and relationships derived from their public agency role distorted the fairness of that international competitive process." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case102:Procurement_Integrity_in_Public_Engineering_Implicated_by_World_Bank_Financed_Project ;
proeth:discoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "102" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "U.S. Agency Engineers Group" ;
proeth:obligationclass "International Engineering Procurement Competitive Integrity Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to pursue the hydroelectric project design contract exclusively through merit-based, qualification-based, and honest competitive means — refraining from leveraging insider knowledge of publicly-funded basic plans and personal relationships with the foreign government agency's representatives to gain structural competitive advantage in the international procurement process." ;
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:temporalscope "Throughout the proposal and contract negotiation process with the foreign government" ;
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",
"Several engineers in the employ of the U.S. Agency responsible for the basic plans negotiated with at least two engineering firms with the intent of taking part in the design and supervision of the work" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 102 Extraction" ;
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
102
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00
First case
102
Generated
2026-03-02T16:10:35.697967+00:00
Attributed to
Case 102 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:27:05.301248
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction