Firm A Broker-Only Role Transparency and Specialist Referral Duty
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/161#Firm_A_Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_and_Specialist_Referral_Duty
Properties
Instance of
Broker-OnlyPrimeRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Broker-OnlyPrimeRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation
Case context
Firm A recognized that all substantive technical work fell within Engineer X's expertise and that its own contribution would be limited to nominal administrative services; it should have disclosed this and recommended direct engagement of Engineer X.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Firm A
Obligation statement
Firm A was obligated to disclose to the government agency that its own contribution would be nominal and to recommend that the agency engage Engineer X directly, rather than interposing itself as a nominal prime contractor.
Temporal scope
At the time of preparing and submitting the solicitation response, or upon recognizing the nominal nature of its own contribution
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
Two of the eight firms, A and B, stated that they had each made arrangements with Engineer X, a recognized expert in the technical subject matter and a principal in his own firm, to provide the highly specialized expertise and that they would themselves furnish all other services involved.
Text references
In actuality, these other services would be nominal in nature.
The government agency, concluding that Firms A and B would not make a substantial contribution to the work, then contacted Engineer X
Two of the eight firms, A and B, stated that they had each made arrangements with Engineer X, a recognized expert in the technical subject matter and a principal in his own firm, to provide the highly specialized expertise and that they would themselves furnish all other services involved.
TTL
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case161:Firm_A_Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_and_Specialist_Referral_Duty a proeth:Broker-OnlyPrimeRoleTransparencyandSpecialist-DirectReferralObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm A Broker-Only Role Transparency and Specialist Referral Duty" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case161:Firm_A_Nominal_Prime_Capability_Misrepresentation_in_Government_Solicitation ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case161:Firm_A_Nominal_Prime_Capability_Misrepresentation_in_Government_Solicitation ;
proeth:casecontext "Firm A recognized that all substantive technical work fell within Engineer X's expertise and that its own contribution would be limited to nominal administrative services; it should have disclosed this and recommended direct engagement of Engineer X." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case161:Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_and_Specialist_Referral_Obligation_Applied_to_Firms_A_and_B ;
proeth:discoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Firm A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Broker-Only Prime Role Transparency and Specialist-Direct Referral Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Firm A was obligated to disclose to the government agency that its own contribution would be nominal and to recommend that the agency engage Engineer X directly, rather than interposing itself as a nominal prime contractor." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Two of the eight firms, A and B, stated that they had each made arrangements with Engineer X, a recognized expert in the technical subject matter and a principal in his own firm, to provide the highly specialized expertise and that they would themselves furnish all other services involved." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of preparing and submitting the solicitation response, or upon recognizing the nominal nature of its own contribution" ;
proeth:textreferences "In actuality, these other services would be nominal in nature.",
"The government agency, concluding that Firms A and B would not make a substantial contribution to the work, then contacted Engineer X",
"Two of the eight firms, A and B, stated that they had each made arrangements with Engineer X, a recognized expert in the technical subject matter and a principal in his own firm, to provide the highly specialized expertise and that they would themselves furnish all other services involved." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 161 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T11:58:20.074096"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
161
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00
First case
161
Generated
2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00
Attributed to
Case 161 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:58:20.074096
Generated by
ProEthica Case 161 Extraction