Engineer A Verbal Pre-Selection Promise Non-Acceptance City X Future Project
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Engineer_A_Verbal_Pre-Selection_Promise_Non-Acceptance_City_X_Future_Project
Properties
Instance of
VerbalPre-SelectionPromiseNon-AcceptanceObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#VerbalPre-SelectionPromiseNon-AcceptanceObligation
Case context
Engineer C verbally promised to select Engineer A's firm on a future City X engineering project as recognition for Engineer A's speculative grant work. Engineer A's firm received this promise without documented declination.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A, as principal of the engineering firm that received Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise, was obligated to decline or actively repudiate that promise and to refrain from acquiescing to or acting upon it, recognizing that acceptance or acquiescence made the firm complicit in a procurement integrity violation and conferred an unfair competitive advantage over other qualified firms.
Temporal scope
Upon receipt of Engineer C's verbal promise
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X
Text references
Engineer A is a principal in a medium-sized engineering firm with expertise in mechanical and electrical engineering
Engineer C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X
TTL
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case117:Engineer_A_Verbal_Pre-Selection_Promise_Non-Acceptance_City_X_Future_Project a proeth:VerbalPre-SelectionPromiseNon-AcceptanceObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Verbal Pre-Selection Promise Non-Acceptance City X Future Project" ;
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,
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Informal_Pre-Award_Selection_Commitment_—_Engineer_C_to_Engineer_A> ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case117:Engineer_A_Speculative_Contribution_Non-Entitlement_Acknowledgment_Grant_Work ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer C verbally promised to select Engineer A's firm on a future City X engineering project as recognition for Engineer A's speculative grant work. Engineer A's firm received this promise without documented declination." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case117:Fairness_in_Professional_Competition_Violated_by_Pre-Selection_Arrangement,
case117:Verbal_Pre-Selection_Acceptance_Prohibition_Applied_to_Engineer_A ;
proeth:discoveredincase "117" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T15:49:01.734296+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "117" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T15:49:01.734296+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Verbal Pre-Selection Promise Non-Acceptance Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A, as principal of the engineering firm that received Engineer C's verbal pre-selection promise, was obligated to decline or actively repudiate that promise and to refrain from acquiescing to or acting upon it, recognizing that acceptance or acquiescence made the firm complicit in a procurement integrity violation and conferred an unfair competitive advantage over other qualified firms." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X" ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receipt of Engineer C's verbal promise" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is a principal in a medium-sized engineering firm with expertise in mechanical and electrical engineering",
"Engineer C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 117 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T16:01:19.949791"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 117 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
117
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T15:49:01.734296+00:00
First case
117
Generated
2026-02-28T15:49:01.734296+00:00
Attributed to
Case 117 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T16:01:19.949791
Generated by
ProEthica Case 117 Extraction