Competitive Conflict of Interest Disclosure Engineer C City Administrator
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/20#Competitive_Conflict_of_Interest_Disclosure_Engineer_C_City_Administrator
Properties
Instance of
CompetitiveConflictofInterestDisclosureBeforeAdvisoryCritiqueObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#CompetitiveConflictofInterestDisclosureBeforeAdvisoryCritiqueObligation
Case context
Engineer C provided critical evaluations of Engineer B's professional decisions to the City Administrator, who held significant authority over the next contract selection, without disclosing that Engineer C was a competitor for that contract.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.96
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer C
Obligation statement
Engineer C was obligated to affirmatively disclose to the City Administrator that Engineer C was a direct competitor for the upcoming 3-year consulting engineering contract — and therefore had a direct competitive financial interest in the outcome of any critical evaluation of Engineer B's work — before or contemporaneously with providing any evaluative opinions, so that the City Administrator could appropriately weigh Engineer C's advisory opinions in light of that self-interest.
Temporal scope
Before or contemporaneously with providing any evaluative opinions about Engineer B's work to the City Administrator
Relationships
derivedFromPrinciple
Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Advisory Engagements Applied to Engineer C
Source Evidence
Source text
The City Administrator also has previous experiences with a competing firm, Engineer C.
Text references
Engineer C answers the City Administrator's questions on the specific issues and is critical of Engineer B's decisions.
Engineer C fully realizes that answering these questions in a certain perspective would be a pretext to gaining an advantage in the competition for the next 3-year contract.
The City Administrator also has previous experiences with a competing firm, Engineer C.
TTL
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case20:Competitive_Conflict_of_Interest_Disclosure_Engineer_C_City_Administrator a proeth:CompetitiveConflictofInterestDisclosureBeforeAdvisoryCritiqueObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Competitive Conflict of Interest Disclosure Engineer C City Administrator" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case20:Engineer_C_Competitor_Critique_Declination_Obligation_Instance ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case20:Engineer_C_Conflict_of_Interest_in_Competitive_Evaluation_Context ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer C provided critical evaluations of Engineer B's professional decisions to the City Administrator, who held significant authority over the next contract selection, without disclosing that Engineer C was a competitor for that contract." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.96" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case20:Conflict_of_Interest_Disclosure_in_Advisory_Engagements_Applied_to_Engineer_C ;
proeth:discoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T18:14:35.306994+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T18:14:35.306994+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer C" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Competitive Conflict of Interest Disclosure Before Advisory Critique Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer C was obligated to affirmatively disclose to the City Administrator that Engineer C was a direct competitor for the upcoming 3-year consulting engineering contract — and therefore had a direct competitive financial interest in the outcome of any critical evaluation of Engineer B's work — before or contemporaneously with providing any evaluative opinions, so that the City Administrator could appropriately weigh Engineer C's advisory opinions in light of that self-interest." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The City Administrator also has previous experiences with a competing firm, Engineer C." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Before or contemporaneously with providing any evaluative opinions about Engineer B's work to the City Administrator" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer C answers the City Administrator's questions on the specific issues and is critical of Engineer B's decisions.",
"Engineer C fully realizes that answering these questions in a certain perspective would be a pretext to gaining an advantage in the competition for the next 3-year contract.",
"The City Administrator also has previous experiences with a competing firm, Engineer C." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 20 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T18:27:44.475091"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 20 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
20
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T18:14:35.306994+00:00
First case
20
Generated
2026-02-25T18:14:35.306994+00:00
Attributed to
Case 20 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T18:27:44.475091
Generated by
ProEthica Case 20 Extraction