Engineer C Public Announcement Open Competition Minimum Standard City X
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Engineer_C_Public_Announcement_Open_Competition_Minimum_Standard_City_X
Properties
Instance of
PublicAnnouncementandOpenCompetitionProcurementMinimumStandardObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicAnnouncementandOpenCompetitionProcurementMinimumStandardObligation
Case context
Engineer C verbally promised Engineer A's firm future contract selection as recognition for speculative grant work, without any public announcement or open competition, thereby bypassing the minimum procurement floor the Board identifies as applicable regardless of the specific procurement method used.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer C (Chief City Engineer, City X)
Obligation statement
Engineer C was obligated to ensure that any selection of an engineering firm for a future City X project included at minimum a public announcement of the opportunity and a free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered — and was prohibited from making any advance commitment to Engineer A's firm that foreclosed this minimum competitive process.
Temporal scope
Prior to and at the time of making the verbal pre-selection promise to Engineer A's firm.
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Regardless of the method of professional selection utilized in City X, one must assume that the method would, at a minimum, involve public announcement along with free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered for the contract.
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.
Regardless of the method of professional selection utilized in City X, one must assume that the method would, at a minimum, involve public announcement along with 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_C_Public_Announcement_Open_Competition_Minimum_Standard_City_X a proeth:PublicAnnouncementandOpenCompetitionProcurementMinimumStandardObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer C Public Announcement Open Competition Minimum Standard City X" ;
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 verbally promised Engineer A's firm future contract selection as recognition for speculative grant work, without any public announcement or open competition, thereby bypassing the minimum procurement floor the Board identifies as applicable regardless of the specific procurement method used." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case117:Free_and_Open_Competition_Invoked_Against_Engineer_C_Pre-Selection_Promise,
case117:Free_and_Open_Competition_Violated_by_Engineer_C_Pre-Selection_Promise ;
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 "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer C (Chief City Engineer, City X)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Public Announcement and Open Competition Procurement Minimum Standard Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer C was obligated to ensure that any selection of an engineering firm for a future City X project included at minimum a public announcement of the opportunity and a free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered — and was prohibited from making any advance commitment to Engineer A's firm that foreclosed this minimum competitive process." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Regardless of the method of professional selection utilized in City X, one must assume that the method would, at a minimum, involve public announcement along with free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered for the contract." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Prior to and at the time of making the verbal pre-selection promise to Engineer A's firm." ;
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.",
"Regardless of the method of professional selection utilized in City X, one must assume that the method would, at a minimum, involve public announcement along with free and open opportunity for all qualified and eligible engineers and engineering firms to be considered for the contract." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 117 Extraction" ;
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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
2026-02-28T16:01:19.958559
Generated by
ProEthica Case 117 Extraction