Engineer A Competitive Procurement Fairness Smithtown Road Project
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#Engineer_A_Competitive_Procurement_Fairness_Smithtown_Road_Project
Properties
Instance of
CompetitiveProcurementFairnessObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetitiveProcurementFairnessObligation
Case context
After Engineer B's termination, Engineer A offered his own firm's services directly to Smithtown rather than recommending an open competitive procurement for replacement design services.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated, in his capacity as part-time town engineer with advisory authority over engineering service contracts, to ensure that the replacement design contract for the road project was awarded through an open, competitive, and qualification-based process — rather than through a direct offer by Engineer A's own firm — so that all qualified firms had a fair opportunity to compete for the work.
Temporal scope
Upon Engineer B's termination and before any replacement design contractor was engaged
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Evaluator-to-Beneficiary Conflict Prohibition Applied to Engineer A Road Design
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
Text references
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.
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Competitive Procurement Fairness Smithtown Road Project" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case105:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Advisory_Service_to_Smithtown_Within_Ethical_Limits ;
proeth:casecontext "After Engineer B's termination, Engineer A offered his own firm's services directly to Smithtown rather than recommending an open competitive procurement for replacement design services." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.89" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case105:Evaluator-to-Beneficiary_Conflict_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Road_Design ;
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proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "105" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Part-Time Town Engineer and Private Consultant)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Competitive Procurement Fairness Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated, in his capacity as part-time town engineer with advisory authority over engineering service contracts, to ensure that the replacement design contract for the road project was awarded through an open, competitive, and qualification-based process — rather than through a direct offer by Engineer A's own firm — so that all qualified firms had a fair opportunity to compete for the work." ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon Engineer B's termination and before any replacement design contractor was engaged" ;
proeth:textreferences "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." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 105 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T08:46:32.089594"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 105 Extraction" .
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Extraction details
Discovered in case
105
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00
First case
105
Generated
2026-02-28T08:33:33.164515+00:00
Attributed to
Case 105 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T08:46:32.089594
Generated by
ProEthica Case 105 Extraction