Firm A City Position Marketing Non-Exploitation
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Firm_A_City_Position_Marketing_Non-Exploitation
Properties
Instance of
City-RetainedEngineerPublicRolePrivateMarketingNon-ExploitationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#City-RetainedEngineerPublicRolePrivateMarketingNon-ExploitationObligation
Case context
Firm A openly marketed its dual role to prospective developer clients, using its city inspection position as a commercial advantage and promising cost savings achievable only through the dual arrangement.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Obligated party
Firm A
Obligation statement
Firm A was obligated to refrain from using its position as city engineer to openly market private services to prospective developer clients, including refraining from advertising cost savings achievable only because Firm A held the city inspection contract.
Temporal scope
Throughout all marketing activities directed at private developer clients
Relationships
competesWith
Firm A Competitive Fairness Non-Exploitation of City Contract, Firm A Faithful Agent City Client Interest Primacy
defeasibleUnder
Firm A Public-Role Marketing to Developer Prospects
derivedFromPrinciple
Public Position Marketing Exploitation — Firm A 50% Savings Promise
Source Evidence
Source text
We are also uncomfortable with Firm A using its position as city engineer to openly market his services with prospective clients.
Text references
Since the beneficiary of the services in question is the city, the marketing technique suggests that Firm A may be offering developers less than the full range of services required to perform the services adequately but sufficient enough to cause the work to be approved by the city.
We are also uncomfortable with Firm A using its position as city engineer to openly market his services with prospective clients.
TTL
@prefix case177: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix proeth-core: <http://proethica.org/ontology/core#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case177:Firm_A_City_Position_Marketing_Non-Exploitation a proeth:City-RetainedEngineerPublicRolePrivateMarketingNon-ExploitationObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Firm A City Position Marketing Non-Exploitation" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case177:Firm_A_Competitive_Fairness_Non-Exploitation_of_City_Contract,
case177:Firm_A_Faithful_Agent_City_Client_Interest_Primacy ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case177:Firm_A_Public-Role_Marketing_to_Developer_Prospects ;
proeth:casecontext "Firm A openly marketed its dual role to prospective developer clients, using its city inspection position as a commercial advantage and promising cost savings achievable only through the dual arrangement." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/177#Public_Position_Marketing_Exploitation_—_Firm_A_50%_Savings_Promise> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "177" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "177" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Firm A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "City-Retained Engineer Public Role Private Marketing Non-Exploitation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Firm A was obligated to refrain from using its position as city engineer to openly market private services to prospective developer clients, including refraining from advertising cost savings achievable only because Firm A held the city inspection contract." ;
proeth:sourcetext "We are also uncomfortable with Firm A using its position as city engineer to openly market his services with prospective clients." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout all marketing activities directed at private developer clients" ;
proeth:textreferences "Since the beneficiary of the services in question is the city, the marketing technique suggests that Firm A may be offering developers less than the full range of services required to perform the services adequately but sufficient enough to cause the work to be approved by the city.",
"We are also uncomfortable with Firm A using its position as city engineer to openly market his services with prospective clients." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 177 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-01T09:35:05.763369"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 177 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
177
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00
First case
177
Generated
2026-03-01T09:23:17.458159+00:00
Attributed to
Case 177 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T09:35:05.763369
Generated by
ProEthica Case 177 Extraction