Firm A Nominal Prime Capability Misrepresentation in Government Solicitation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/161#Firm_A_Nominal_Prime_Capability_Misrepresentation_in_Government_Solicitation
Properties
Instance of
NominalPrimeCapabilityMisrepresentationNon-CommissionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#NominalPrimeCapabilityMisrepresentationNon-CommissionObligation
Case context
Government agency solicitation for highly specialized engineering services; Firm A responded affirmatively stating it had arranged Engineer X as sub-consultant and would furnish all other services, but those other services were nominal.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Firm A
Obligation statement
Firm A was obligated to refrain from representing itself as a capable prime contractor furnishing all other services when, in actuality, those other services would be nominal in nature, with all substantive technical work to be performed by Engineer X.
Temporal scope
At the time of submitting the solicitation response to the government agency
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Nominal Subconsultant Arrangement — Firm A
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.
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_Nominal_Prime_Capability_Misrepresentation_in_Government_Solicitation a proeth:NominalPrimeCapabilityMisrepresentationNon-CommissionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm A Nominal Prime Capability Misrepresentation in Government Solicitation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case161:Firm_A_Broker-Only_Role_Transparency_and_Specialist_Referral_Duty ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/161#Nominal_Subconsultant_Arrangement_—_Firm_A> ;
proeth:casecontext "Government agency solicitation for highly specialized engineering services; Firm A responded affirmatively stating it had arranged Engineer X as sub-consultant and would furnish all other services, but those other services were nominal." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case161:Honesty_in_Professional_Representations_Violated_by_Firms_A_and_B,
case161:Nominal_Capability_Misrepresentation_by_Firm_A_in_Solicitation_Response ;
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 "Nominal Prime Capability Misrepresentation Non-Commission Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Firm A was obligated to refrain from representing itself as a capable prime contractor furnishing all other services when, in actuality, those other services would be nominal in nature, with all substantive technical work to be performed by Engineer X." ;
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 submitting the solicitation response to the government agency" ;
proeth:textreferences "In actuality, these other services would be nominal in nature.",
"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 "2026-03-02T11:58:20.073736"^^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
2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00
First case
161
Generated
2026-03-02T11:39:47.884884+00:00
Attributed to
Case 161 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:58:20.073736
Generated by
ProEthica Case 161 Extraction