Broker-Only Role Transparency Obligation of Firms A and B
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/161#Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_Obligation_of_Firms_A_and_B
Properties
Instance of
Broker-OnlyRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Broker-OnlyRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation
Applied to
Engineer X specialist engagement
Government agency solicitation
Public procurement process
Balancing with
Competitive interest in prime contract award
Loyalty to business development interests
Concrete expression
Firms A and B, recognizing that the entire substantive technical work fell within Engineer X's expertise and that their own contributions would be nominal, were obligated to transparently disclose their brokerage-only role to the government agency and recommend that the agency engage Engineer X directly.
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
The ethical path for Firms A and B was not to interpose themselves as nominal primes but to acknowledge their brokerage-only role and facilitate direct engagement of the specialist — serving the agency's interest in obtaining the best qualified services efficiently.
Invoked by
Firms A and B Broker-Only Prime Recommending Specialist Referral
Tension resolution
Transparency and faithful agency to the procuring authority override the firms' commercial interest in capturing the prime contract role when their contribution would be purely nominal.
Source Evidence
Source text
The work to be performed is entirely within Engineer X's field of expertise and does not require services from firms other than those of Engineer X.
Text references
In actuality, these other services would be nominal in nature.
The work to be performed is entirely within Engineer X's field of expertise and does not require services from firms other than those of Engineer X.
TTL
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case161:Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_Obligation_of_Firms_A_and_B a proeth:Broker-OnlyRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Broker-Only Role Transparency Obligation of Firms A and B" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer X specialist engagement",
"Government agency solicitation",
"Public procurement process" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Competitive interest in prime contract award",
"Loyalty to business development interests" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Firms A and B, recognizing that the entire substantive technical work fell within Engineer X's expertise and that their own contributions would be nominal, were obligated to transparently disclose their brokerage-only role to the government agency and recommend that the agency engage Engineer X directly." ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T11:37:38.249789+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T11:37:38.249789+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The ethical path for Firms A and B was not to interpose themselves as nominal primes but to acknowledge their brokerage-only role and facilitate direct engagement of the specialist — serving the agency's interest in obtaining the best qualified services efficiently." ;
proeth:invokedby "Firms A and B Broker-Only Prime Recommending Specialist Referral" ;
proeth:principleclass "Broker-Only Role Transparency and Specialist-Direct Referral Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The work to be performed is entirely within Engineer X's field of expertise and does not require services from firms other than those of Engineer X." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Transparency and faithful agency to the procuring authority override the firms' commercial interest in capturing the prime contract role when their contribution would be purely nominal." ;
proeth:textreferences "In actuality, these other services would be nominal in nature.",
"The work to be performed is entirely within Engineer X's field of expertise and does not require services from firms other than those of Engineer X." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 161 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T11:58:20.071985"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 161 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
161
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T11:37:38.249789+00:00
First case
161
Generated
2026-03-02T11:37:38.249789+00:00
Attributed to
Case 161 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:58:20.071985
Generated by
ProEthica Case 161 Extraction