Engineer A Conflict of Interest Non-Disclosure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/14#Engineer_A_Conflict_of_Interest_Non-Disclosure
Definition
Engineer A recommended Progressive-Design-Build without disclosing that Engineer A was qualified to provide construction services under that delivery method and stood to benefit financially from the recommendation, depriving City B of information needed to assess the objectivity of the advice.
Properties
Instance of
ConflictofInterestDisclosurePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConflictofInterestDisclosurePrinciple
Applied to
Advisory memo recommending project delivery method to City B
Balancing with
Advisory Role Integrity Principle
Concrete expression
Engineer A recommended Progressive-Design-Build without disclosing that Engineer A was qualified to provide construction services under that delivery method and stood to benefit financially from the recommendation, depriving City B of information needed to assess the objectivity of the advice.
Confidence
0.88
Interpretation
The conflict of interest disclosure obligation required Engineer A to inform City B that the recommended delivery method was one under which Engineer A could provide subsequent paid services before or at the time of making the recommendation.
Tension resolution
Disclosure would not have fully resolved the conflict; the BER analysis implies Engineer A should have either disclosed and withdrawn from the advisory role or provided complete unbiased analysis.
Match Confidence
0.0
Matches Existing
false
Synthesis Literal
appliedTo
balancingWith
concreteExpression
confidence
interpretation
principleClass
tensionResolution
textReferences
Relationships
invokedBy
Agent Engineer A
Source Evidence
Text references
by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit
not offer any gift or other valuable consideration in order to secure work
Source text
by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information
TTL
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case14:Engineer_A_Conflict_of_Interest_Non-Disclosure a proeth:ConflictofInterestDisclosurePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Conflict of Interest Non-Disclosure" ;
proeth-core:invokedBy case14:Agent_Engineer_A ;
proeth:appliedTo "Advisory memo recommending project delivery method to City B" ;
proeth:balancingWith "Advisory Role Integrity Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteExpression "Engineer A recommended Progressive-Design-Build without disclosing that Engineer A was qualified to provide construction services under that delivery method and stood to benefit financially from the recommendation, depriving City B of information needed to assess the objectivity of the advice." ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:interpretation "The conflict of interest disclosure obligation required Engineer A to inform City B that the recommended delivery method was one under which Engineer A could provide subsequent paid services before or at the time of making the recommendation." ;
proeth:invokedBy "Engineer A Delivery Advisor Incomplete" ;
proeth:principleClass "Conflict of Interest Disclosure Principle" ;
proeth:tensionResolution "Disclosure would not have fully resolved the conflict; the BER analysis implies Engineer A should have either disclosed and withdrawn from the advisory role or provided complete unbiased analysis." ;
proeth:textReferences "by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit",
"not offer any gift or other valuable consideration in order to secure work" ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInPass 2 ;
proeth-prov:discoveredInSection "discussion" ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredAt "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
proeth-prov:firstDiscoveredInCase 14 ;
proeth-prov:matchConfidence 0.0 ;
proeth-prov:matchesExisting false ;
proeth-prov:sourceText "by providing only a partial, comparative engineering evaluation with no analysis and a recommendation to Engineer A's benefit, the conduct constituted both incomplete and self-serving information" ;
proeth-prov:synthesisLiteral "appliedTo",
"balancingWith",
"concreteExpression",
"confidence",
"interpretation",
"principleClass",
"tensionResolution",
"textReferences" ;
rdfs:comment "Engineer A recommended Progressive-Design-Build without disclosing that Engineer A was qualified to provide construction services under that delivery method and stood to benefit financially from the recommendation, depriving City B of information needed to assess the objectivity of the advice." ;
skos:definition "Engineer A recommended Progressive-Design-Build without disclosing that Engineer A was qualified to provide construction services under that delivery method and stood to benefit financially from the recommendation, depriving City B of information needed to assess the objectivity of the advice." ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasAttributedTo "Case 14 Extraction",
"claude-sonnet-4-6" ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 14 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
14
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
First case
14
Generated
2026-06-04T08:46:54.906706+00:00
Attributed to
['Case 14 Extraction', 'claude-sonnet-4-6']
Generated by
ProEthica Case 14 Extraction