Contract Award Conditionality Non-Acquiescence Invoked Against Off-Contract Gift Condition
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/167#Contract_Award_Conditionality_Non-Acquiescence_Invoked_Against_Off-Contract_Gift_Condition
Properties
Instance of
ContractAwardConditionalityNon-AcquiescencePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ContractAwardConditionalityNon-AcquiescencePrinciple
Applied to
Foreign Government Official Conditioning Contract on Gifts
Richard Roe International Government Consulting Engineer
Balancing with
Corrupt Payment Prohibition in Professional Engagement Procurement
Concrete expression
The fact that the gift condition is deliberately excluded from the written contract does not reduce Roe's ethical obligation to refuse it; an implicit, off-contract condition requiring gifts is ethically equivalent to a formal contractual bribery requirement
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
The structural design of the condition — kept off the contract to maintain deniability — does not diminish its ethical character; Roe must treat the informal condition as ethically equivalent to a formal corrupt payment demand
Invoked by
NSPE Ethics Committee Reviewing Engineer
Tension resolution
The off-contract nature of the condition is treated as ethically irrelevant; the prohibition applies to the substance of the demand, not its formal presentation
Source Evidence
Source text
Roe is further advised that while the condition is not to be included in the contract, his failure to make the gifts will result in no further work being awarded to the firm and to expect poor cooperation in performing the first contract.
Text references
while the condition is not to be included in the contract, his failure to make the gifts will result in no further work being awarded to the firm and to expect poor cooperation in performing the first contract
TTL
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case167:Contract_Award_Conditionality_Non-Acquiescence_Invoked_Against_Off-Contract_Gift_Condition a proeth:ContractAwardConditionalityNon-AcquiescencePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Contract Award Conditionality Non-Acquiescence Invoked Against Off-Contract Gift Condition" ;
proeth:appliedto "Foreign Government Official Conditioning Contract on Gifts",
"Richard Roe International Government Consulting Engineer" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Corrupt Payment Prohibition in Professional Engagement Procurement" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The fact that the gift condition is deliberately excluded from the written contract does not reduce Roe's ethical obligation to refuse it; an implicit, off-contract condition requiring gifts is ethically equivalent to a formal contractual bribery requirement" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T10:09:07.893024+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "167" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T10:09:07.893024+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The structural design of the condition — kept off the contract to maintain deniability — does not diminish its ethical character; Roe must treat the informal condition as ethically equivalent to a formal corrupt payment demand" ;
proeth:invokedby "NSPE Ethics Committee Reviewing Engineer" ;
proeth:principleclass "Contract Award Conditionality Non-Acquiescence Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Roe is further advised that while the condition is not to be included in the contract, his failure to make the gifts will result in no further work being awarded to the firm and to expect poor cooperation in performing the first contract." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The off-contract nature of the condition is treated as ethically irrelevant; the prohibition applies to the substance of the demand, not its formal presentation" ;
proeth:textreferences "while the condition is not to be included in the contract, his failure to make the gifts will result in no further work being awarded to the firm and to expect poor cooperation in performing the first contract" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 167 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T10:28:27.329706"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 167 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
167
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T10:09:07.893024+00:00
First case
167
Generated
2026-03-02T10:09:07.893024+00:00
Attributed to
Case 167 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T10:28:27.329706
Generated by
ProEthica Case 167 Extraction