Fairness in Professional Competition Violated by Pre-Selection Arrangement
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/117#Fairness_in_Professional_Competition_Violated_by_Pre-Selection_Arrangement
Properties
Instance of
FairnessinProfessionalCompetition
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FairnessinProfessionalCompetition
Applied to
Future City X engineering project procurement
Balancing with
Loyalty
Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering
Concrete expression
The verbal pre-selection promise from Engineer C to Engineer A's firm denies all other qualified engineering firms fair and equal competitive access to the future City X engineering project, constituting an exclusionary practice that favors one firm without lawful justification
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
Fairness in professional competition requires that public engineering contracts be open to all qualified firms on equal terms; informal pre-selection arrangements — even those motivated by genuine appreciation for prior contributions — are structurally exclusionary and violate this principle
Invoked by
Engineer A Procurement-Bypassing Engineering Firm
Engineer C Chief City Engineer Procurement Authority
Tension resolution
Competitive fairness admits no exception for gratitude-based pre-selection; the principle requires equal access regardless of the prior relationship between the official and the favored firm
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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proeth:importance "high" ;
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proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Procurement-Bypassing Engineering Firm",
"Engineer C Chief City Engineer Procurement Authority" ;
proeth:principleclass "Fairness in Professional Competition" ;
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:tensionresolution "Competitive fairness admits no exception for gratitude-based pre-selection; the principle requires equal access regardless of the prior relationship between the official and the favored firm" ;
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"In recognition of Engineer A's work in securing the grant" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
117
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T15:47:33.923942+00:00
First case
117
Generated
2026-02-28T15:47:33.923942+00:00
Attributed to
Case 117 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T16:01:19.942995
Generated by
ProEthica Case 117 Extraction