Dual-Role Conflict of Interest Invoked Against Engineer A Part-Time Town Engineer

@prefix case105: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> . @prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> . case105:Dual-Role_Conflict_of_Interest_Invoked_Against_Engineer_A_Part-Time_Town_Engineer a proeth:Dual-RoleConflictofInterestProhibitioninPublic-PrivateEngineering, owl:NamedIndividual ; rdfs:label "Dual-Role Conflict of Interest Invoked Against Engineer A Part-Time Town Engineer" ; proeth:appliedto "Engineer A's simultaneous public advisory role and private consulting practice", "Smithtown local road project contractor selection and evaluation" ; proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty", "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ; proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ; proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A simultaneously serves as part-time town engineer (a public advisory role with authority over contractor selection and evaluation) and as principal of a private consulting engineering practice — the two roles intersect directly when Engineer A advises on contractor selection and then evaluates the selected contractor's performance, creating a conflict between public advisory impartiality and private commercial interest in obtaining the contract" ; proeth:confidence "0.92" ; proeth:discoveredincase "105" ; proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ; proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T08:32:05.674158+00:00" ; proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "105" ; proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T08:32:05.674158+00:00" ; proeth:importance "high" ; proeth:interpretation "The dual-role prohibition applies because Engineer A's public role as town engineer gave him authority over both the selection of Engineer B and the evaluation of Engineer B's performance — authority that is directly linked to the private commercial opportunity Engineer A subsequently accepted" ; proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant" ; proeth:principleclass "Dual-Role Conflict of Interest Prohibition in Public-Private Engineering" ; proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice. With Engineer A's advice and concurrence, Smithtown selects Engineer B to provide design services for a local road project." ; proeth:tensionresolution "The conflict of interest prohibition overrides the faithful agent obligation because the engineer's public role created the commercial opportunity, and accepting that opportunity compromises the integrity of both the public role and the private engagement" ; proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is the part-time town engineer for Smithtown and also has a consulting engineering practice.", "Engineer A, in his role as town engineer, reviews Engineer B's preliminary work and becomes convinced that Engineer B's performance on the contract does not meet the standards", "Following the termination of Engineer B under the terms and conditions of his contract with the town, Engineer A offers, and Smithtown agrees, that Engineer A's firm should perform the design work for the local road project for Smithtown.", "With Engineer A's advice and concurrence, Smithtown selects Engineer B to provide design services for a local road project." ; proeth:wasattributedto "Case 105 Extraction" ; prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T08:46:32.086629"^^xsd:dateTime ; prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 105 Extraction" .