Engineer A Elevated Storage Tank Out-of-Scope Work Non-Self-Serving Motivation Assessment
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/178#Engineer_A_Elevated_Storage_Tank_Out-of-Scope_Work_Non-Self-Serving_Motivation_Assessment
Properties
Instance of
Out-of-ScopeInitiativeNon-Self-ServingFaithfulAgentObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Out-of-ScopeInitiativeNon-Self-ServingFaithfulAgentObligation
Case context
Engineer A developed elevated storage tank funding content as part of the water treatment report despite this being outside the contracted scope; Clover City subsequently indicated it would consider awarding Engineer A an independent contract for the elevated storage tank design.
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to ensure that his out-of-scope work on the elevated storage tank portion of the water treatment report was genuinely motivated by the interests of ABC and Clover City rather than by his own commercial interest in positioning for an independent contract, and to refrain from treating that contribution as creating an entitlement to the subsequent elevated storage tank design contract.
Temporal scope
During preparation of the water treatment report and subsequently when soliciting the elevated storage tank design contract independently
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Elevated Storage Tank Out-of-Scope Work State
Source Evidence
Source text
Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank.
Text references
Clover City is impressed by Engineer A's initiative on this project.
The city indicates that it would consider a city retainer contract and also a contract for the design of the elevated storage tank.
Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank.
TTL
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case178:Engineer_A_Elevated_Storage_Tank_Out-of-Scope_Work_Non-Self-Serving_Motivation_Assessment a proeth:Out-of-ScopeInitiativeNon-Self-ServingFaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Elevated Storage Tank Out-of-Scope Work Non-Self-Serving Motivation Assessment" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case178:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Duty_to_ABC_During_Active_Clover_City_Project ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case178:Elevated_Storage_Tank_Out-of-Scope_Work_State ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A developed elevated storage tank funding content as part of the water treatment report despite this being outside the contracted scope; Clover City subsequently indicated it would consider awarding Engineer A an independent contract for the elevated storage tank design." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case178:Non-Self-Serving_Advisory_Obligation_Applied_to_Engineer_A_Elevated_Storage_Tank_Initiative ;
proeth:discoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "178" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Out-of-Scope Initiative Non-Self-Serving Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to ensure that his out-of-scope work on the elevated storage tank portion of the water treatment report was genuinely motivated by the interests of ABC and Clover City rather than by his own commercial interest in positioning for an independent contract, and to refrain from treating that contribution as creating an entitlement to the subsequent elevated storage tank design contract." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank." ;
proeth:temporalscope "During preparation of the water treatment report and subsequently when soliciting the elevated storage tank design contract independently" ;
proeth:textreferences "Clover City is impressed by Engineer A's initiative on this project.",
"The city indicates that it would consider a city retainer contract and also a contract for the design of the elevated storage tank.",
"Those aspects of the report that dealt with the elevated storage tank were not part of the scope of work originally negotiated between ABC and Clover City and no contract exists between the city and ABC for the design of the elevated storage tank." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 178 Extraction" ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
178
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
First case
178
Generated
2026-03-01T08:29:53.222093+00:00
Attributed to
Case 178 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-01T08:48:26.012285
Generated by
ProEthica Case 178 Extraction