Firm A Specialist-Retention Provision Contextual Reading Violation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/161#Firm_A_Specialist-Retention_Provision_Contextual_Reading_Violation
Properties
Instance of
Specialist-RetentionProvisionPrime-Substantive-ContributionContextualReadingObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Specialist-RetentionProvisionPrime-Substantive-ContributionContextualReadingObligation
Case context
Firm A responded affirmatively to the government solicitation, arranging Engineer X as sub-consultant while its own contribution would be nominal — limited to brokerage and administrative coordination.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineers within Firm A with authority over the solicitation response
Obligation statement
Engineers within Firm A were obligated to read the specialist-retention provision of Section 6 in context of the full competence requirement, recognizing that the provision does not permit accepting a prime role when the firm's only substantive service would be to arrange for Engineer X's services, with no substantial technical contribution of its own.
Temporal scope
At the time of preparing and submitting the solicitation response
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Specialist Engagement Obligation Contextual Application in Prime-Sub Structure
Source Evidence
Source text
The second clause of Section 6 recognizes the propriety and value of the prime professional or client retaining the services of experts and specialists in the interest of the project.
Text references
On that basis we believe that Firms A and B should not have offered to undertake the prime contract if their only substantive service would be to arrange for the services of Engineer X.
The second clause of Section 6 recognizes the propriety and value of the prime professional or client retaining the services of experts and specialists in the interest of the project.
We read this procedure in the context of the full Section 6, however, and conclude that in totality Section 6 contemplates that a prime professional engineer will be expected to retain or recommend the retention of experts and specialists in situations in which the prime professional engineer is performing substantial services of a project.
TTL
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case161:Firm_A_Specialist-Retention_Provision_Contextual_Reading_Violation a proeth:Specialist-RetentionProvisionPrime-Substantive-ContributionContextualReadingObligation,
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proeth:casecontext "Firm A responded affirmatively to the government solicitation, arranging Engineer X as sub-consultant while its own contribution would be nominal — limited to brokerage and administrative coordination." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case161:Specialist_Engagement_Obligation_Contextual_Application_in_Prime-Sub_Structure ;
proeth:discoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T11:48:04.527242+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "161" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T11:48:04.527242+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineers within Firm A with authority over the solicitation response" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Specialist-Retention Provision Prime-Substantive-Contribution Contextual Reading Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineers within Firm A were obligated to read the specialist-retention provision of Section 6 in context of the full competence requirement, recognizing that the provision does not permit accepting a prime role when the firm's only substantive service would be to arrange for Engineer X's services, with no substantial technical contribution of its own." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The second clause of Section 6 recognizes the propriety and value of the prime professional or client retaining the services of experts and specialists in the interest of the project." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of preparing and submitting the solicitation response" ;
proeth:textreferences "On that basis we believe that Firms A and B should not have offered to undertake the prime contract if their only substantive service would be to arrange for the services of Engineer X.",
"The second clause of Section 6 recognizes the propriety and value of the prime professional or client retaining the services of experts and specialists in the interest of the project.",
"We read this procedure in the context of the full Section 6, however, and conclude that in totality Section 6 contemplates that a prime professional engineer will be expected to retain or recommend the retention of experts and specialists in situations in which the prime professional engineer is performing substantial services of a project." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 161 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T11:58:20.081763"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 161 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
161
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T11:48:04.527242+00:00
First case
161
Generated
2026-03-02T11:48:04.527242+00:00
Attributed to
Case 161 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T11:58:20.081763
Generated by
ProEthica Case 161 Extraction