Smithtown Municipal Government Procurement Integrity Non-Complicity
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/105#Smithtown_Municipal_Government_Procurement_Integrity_Non-Complicity
Properties
Instance of
MunicipalClientProcurementIntegrityNon-ComplicityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#MunicipalClientProcurementIntegrityNon-ComplicityObligation
Case context
Smithtown accepted Engineer A's offer to perform design work on the same project for which Engineer A had previously advised on contractor selection and evaluated the terminated contractor's performance.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Obligated party
Smithtown Municipal Government
Obligation statement
Smithtown was obligated to decline Engineer A's offer to perform the road design work after Engineer A had advised on Engineer B's selection and evaluated Engineer B's performance in his capacity as town engineer, and instead to conduct an open competitive procurement for replacement design services, so as not to be complicit in Engineer A's conflict of interest.
Temporal scope
Upon receiving Engineer A's offer to perform the design work following Engineer B's termination
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer A Client Relationship with Smithtown
derivedFromPrinciple
Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering Invoked for Smithtown Road Project
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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case105:Smithtown_Municipal_Government_Procurement_Integrity_Non-Complicity a proeth:MunicipalClientProcurementIntegrityNon-ComplicityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Smithtown Municipal Government Procurement Integrity Non-Complicity" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case105:Engineer_A_Client_Relationship_with_Smithtown ;
proeth:casecontext "Smithtown accepted Engineer A's offer to perform design work on the same project for which Engineer A had previously advised on contractor selection and evaluated the terminated contractor's performance." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case105:Procurement_Integrity_in_Public_Engineering_Invoked_for_Smithtown_Road_Project ;
proeth:discoveredincase "105" ;
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 "Smithtown Municipal Government" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Municipal Client Procurement Integrity Non-Complicity Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Smithtown was obligated to decline Engineer A's offer to perform the road design work after Engineer A had advised on Engineer B's selection and evaluated Engineer B's performance in his capacity as town engineer, and instead to conduct an open competitive procurement for replacement design services, so as not to be complicit in Engineer A's conflict of interest." ;
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 receiving Engineer A's offer to perform the design work following Engineer B's termination" ;
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 "2026-02-28T08:46:32.088618"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 105 Extraction" .
Metadata
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
2026-02-28T08:46:32.088618
Generated by
ProEthica Case 105 Extraction