US-Agency-Engineers-Public-Basic-Plans-Non-Conversion-Obligation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#US-Agency-Engineers-Public-Basic-Plans-Non-Conversion-Obligation
Properties
Instance of
PublicAgencyBasicPlansNon-ConversiontoPrivateCompetitiveInstrumentObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicAgencyBasicPlansNon-ConversiontoPrivateCompetitiveInstrumentObligation
Case context
The engineers had prepared the basic plans for the hydroelectric project as U.S. Agency employees; they then used that insider knowledge and those personal relationships as the competitive foundation for their joint venture bid for the full design and supervision contract.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
U.S. Agency Engineers Group
Obligation statement
The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to refrain from converting the publicly-funded basic plans they had prepared in their public capacity — and the intimate technical knowledge and personal acquaintance with the project owner's representatives derived therefrom — into a private competitive instrument for obtaining the full design contract.
Temporal scope
From the point of departure from U.S. Agency employment through the submission and award of the design contract
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
The basic plans for the project were prepared by an agency of the Federal Government of the United States
Text references
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
The basic plans for the project were prepared by an agency of the Federal Government of the United States
the group of employees formed a corporation to be a part of a joint venture to design the hydroelectric project
TTL
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case102:US-Agency-Engineers-Public-Basic-Plans-Non-Conversion-Obligation a proeth:PublicAgencyBasicPlansNon-ConversiontoPrivateCompetitiveInstrumentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "US-Agency-Engineers-Public-Basic-Plans-Non-Conversion-Obligation" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case102:Government-Designed_Project_Private_Execution_Transition,
case102:US_Agency_Engineers_Insider_Knowledge_Advantage ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/102#NSPE_Policy_52_Mobility_Right_Ethics_Conditioned_Exercise_—_U.S._Agency_Engineers> ;
proeth:casecontext "The engineers had prepared the basic plans for the hydroelectric project as U.S. Agency employees; they then used that insider knowledge and those personal relationships as the competitive foundation for their joint venture bid for the full design and supervision contract." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case102:Public_Agency_Work_Product_Non-Exploitation_Principle_Violated_by_U.S._Agency_Engineers ;
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 "Public Agency Basic Plans Non-Conversion to Private Competitive Instrument Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The U.S. Agency engineers were obligated to refrain from converting the publicly-funded basic plans they had prepared in their public capacity — and the intimate technical knowledge and personal acquaintance with the project owner's representatives derived therefrom — into a private competitive instrument for obtaining the full design contract." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The basic plans for the project were prepared by an agency of the Federal Government of the United States" ;
proeth:temporalscope "From the point of departure from U.S. Agency employment through the submission and award of the design contract" ;
proeth:textreferences "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",
"The basic plans for the project were prepared by an agency of the Federal Government of the United States",
"the group of employees formed a corporation to be a part of a joint venture to design the hydroelectric project" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 102 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:27:05.300197"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 102 Extraction" .
Metadata
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
2026-03-02T16:27:05.300197
Generated by
ProEthica Case 102 Extraction