Nominal Prime Contractor Engineering Firm
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#NominalPrimeContractorEngineeringFirm
Definition
A licensed professional engineering firm role in which a firm responds to a public solicitation for highly specialized services by arranging for a recognized external specialist to provide the core technical expertise while the firm itself contributes only nominal or peripheral services, thereby misrepresenting the substantive nature of its own contribution and using the specialist's credentials to secure a contract it could not independently fulfill. Bears obligations of honest representation of qualifications, competence, and the actual distribution of work.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering firm role in which a firm responds to a public solicitation for highly specialized services by arranging for a recognized external specialist to provide the core technical expertise while the firm itself contributes only nominal or peripheral services, thereby misrepresenting the substantive nature of its own contribution and using the specialist's credentials to secure a contract it could not independently fulfill. Bears obligations of honest representation of qualifications, competence, and the actual distribution of work.
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.
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rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering firm role in which a firm responds to a public solicitation for highly specialized services by arranging for a recognized external specialist to provide the core technical expertise while the firm itself contributes only nominal or peripheral services, thereby misrepresenting the substantive nature of its own contribution and using the specialist's credentials to secure a contract it could not independently fulfill. Bears obligations of honest representation of qualifications, competence, and the actual distribution of work." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProviderClientRole> .
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Content Hash
6ebecbdadcc4edff...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
161
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-02T11:33:00.934159+00:00
First Discovered In Case
161
Generated
2026-03-02T11:33:00.934159+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 161 Extraction