Engineer A Honorable Professional Conduct Procurement Acceptance City X
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Engineer_A_Honorable_Professional_Conduct_Procurement_Acceptance_City_X
Properties
Instance of
HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation
Case context
Engineer A's firm received or acquiesced to Engineer C's verbal promise of future contract selection, making the firm a participant in the procurement integrity violation identified by the Board.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.84
Importance
medium
Obligated party
Engineer A (Principal, MEP Firm)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to conduct himself honorably, responsibly, and fairly in all procurement-related matters — including declining or repudiating Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise — so as to maintain the public's trust in professional procurement processes and to avoid complicity in a procurement integrity violation.
Temporal scope
At the time Engineer A's firm received or acquiesced to Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise.
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Engineer C Verbal Pre-Award Promise to Engineer As Firm
Source Evidence
Source text
By promising Engineer A in advance that Engineer A would be selected for a future contract without considering the qualifications, experience, and other factors is not consistent with either the spirit or the intent of the NSPE Code of Ethics.
Text references
By promising Engineer A in advance that Engineer A would be selected for a future contract without considering the qualifications, experience, and other factors is not consistent with either the spirit or the intent of the NSPE Code of Ethics.
free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered for the contract.
TTL
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case117:Engineer_A_Honorable_Professional_Conduct_Procurement_Acceptance_City_X a proeth:HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Honorable Professional Conduct Procurement Acceptance City X" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case117:Engineer_A_Speculative_Contribution_Non-Entitlement_Acknowledgment_Grant_Work ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case117:Engineer_C_Verbal_Pre-Award_Promise_to_Engineer_As_Firm ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case117:Engineer_A_Speculative_Contribution_Non-Entitlement_Acknowledgment_Grant_Work ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A's firm received or acquiesced to Engineer C's verbal promise of future contract selection, making the firm a participant in the procurement integrity violation identified by the Board." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.84" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case117:Procurement_Process_Spirit_and_Intent_Compliance_Applied_to_Pre-Selection_Arrangement ;
proeth:discoveredincase "117" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T15:54:23.669424+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "117" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T15:54:23.669424+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (Principal, MEP Firm)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Honorable Professional Conduct in Procurement Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to conduct himself honorably, responsibly, and fairly in all procurement-related matters — including declining or repudiating Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise — so as to maintain the public's trust in professional procurement processes and to avoid complicity in a procurement integrity violation." ;
proeth:sourcetext "By promising Engineer A in advance that Engineer A would be selected for a future contract without considering the qualifications, experience, and other factors is not consistent with either the spirit or the intent of the NSPE Code of Ethics." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time Engineer A's firm received or acquiesced to Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise." ;
proeth:textreferences "By promising Engineer A in advance that Engineer A would be selected for a future contract without considering the qualifications, experience, and other factors is not consistent with either the spirit or the intent of the NSPE Code of Ethics.",
"free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered for the contract." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 117 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T16:01:19.959470"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 117 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
117
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T15:54:23.669424+00:00
First case
117
Generated
2026-02-28T15:54:23.669424+00:00
Attributed to
Case 117 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T16:01:19.959470
Generated by
ProEthica Case 117 Extraction