Engineer C Competitive Procurement Fairness City X Future Contract
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Engineer_C_Competitive_Procurement_Fairness_City_X_Future_Contract
Properties
Instance of
CompetitiveProcurementFairnessObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetitiveProcurementFairnessObligation
Case context
Engineer C's verbal promise to select Engineer A's firm on a future City X project, made outside any competitive selection process, denied all other qualified engineering firms fair and equal competitive access to that project.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer C
Obligation statement
Engineer C, serving as chief city engineer with procurement authority, was obligated to ensure that the future City X engineering project referenced in the verbal promise was awarded through an open, competitive, qualification-based process providing all qualified firms a fair opportunity to compete, rather than through an informal pre-selection arrangement.
Temporal scope
At the time of making the verbal promise and in administering the future contract award process
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 C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X
In recognition of Engineer A's work in securing the grant
TTL
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owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer C Competitive Procurement Fairness City X Future Contract" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case117:Engineer_C_Good_Intent_Non-Justification_Procurement_Promise_City_X ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case117:Engineer_C_Good_Intent_Non-Justification_Procurement_Promise_City_X ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer C's verbal promise to select Engineer A's firm on a future City X project, made outside any competitive selection process, denied all other qualified engineering firms fair and equal competitive access to that project." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case117:Fairness_in_Professional_Competition_Violated_by_Advance_Promise_to_Engineer_A,
case117:Free_and_Open_Competition_Violated_by_Engineer_C_Pre-Selection_Promise ;
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 C" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Competitive Procurement Fairness Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer C, serving as chief city engineer with procurement authority, was obligated to ensure that the future City X engineering project referenced in the verbal promise was awarded through an open, competitive, qualification-based process providing all qualified firms a fair opportunity to compete, rather than through an informal pre-selection arrangement." ;
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 "At the time of making the verbal promise and in administering the future contract award process" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer C, the chief city engineer, verbally promises to select Engineer A's firm on a future engineering project for City X",
"In recognition of Engineer A's work in securing the grant" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 117 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T16:01:19.950698"^^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
2026-02-28T16:01:19.950698
Generated by
ProEthica Case 117 Extraction