Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Advisory Engagements Applied to Engineer C
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/20#Conflict_of_Interest_Disclosure_in_Advisory_Engagements_Applied_to_Engineer_C
Properties
Instance of
ConflictofInterestDisclosureinAdvisoryEngagements
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ConflictofInterestDisclosureinAdvisoryEngagements
Applied to
Engineer C's advisory opinions on Engineer B's professional decisions
Balancing with
Honesty
Objectivity
Concrete expression
Engineer C, having a direct competitive financial interest in the outcome of the City A contract renewal, was obligated to affirmatively disclose that conflict of interest to the City Administrator before providing any opinions on Engineer B's work, so that the City Administrator could assess the objectivity of the advice
Confidence
0.89
Importance
high
Interpretation
The conflict of interest disclosure obligation applies with particular force when the advisory engagement is unsolicited in the formal sense and the advisor has a direct competitive stake in how the client receives the advice
Invoked by
Engineer C Solicited Competitor Critic
Tension resolution
Disclosure of the conflict does not necessarily prohibit providing the opinion, but failure to disclose while providing self-serving critical opinions constitutes a violation of the relational principle governing advisory engagements
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
Text references
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:Conflict_of_Interest_Disclosure_in_Advisory_Engagements_Applied_to_Engineer_C a proeth:ConflictofInterestDisclosureinAdvisoryEngagements,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Advisory Engagements Applied to Engineer C" ;
proeth:appliedto "Engineer C's advisory opinions on Engineer B's professional decisions" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Honesty",
"Objectivity" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer C, having a direct competitive financial interest in the outcome of the City A contract renewal, was obligated to affirmatively disclose that conflict of interest to the City Administrator before providing any opinions on Engineer B's work, so that the City Administrator could assess the objectivity of the advice" ;
proeth:confidence "0.89" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T16:22:54.462969+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "20" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T16:22:54.462969+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The conflict of interest disclosure obligation applies with particular force when the advisory engagement is unsolicited in the formal sense and the advisor has a direct competitive stake in how the client receives the advice" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer C Solicited Competitor Critic" ;
proeth:principleclass "Conflict of Interest Disclosure in Advisory Engagements" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Disclosure of the conflict does not necessarily prohibit providing the opinion, but failure to disclose while providing self-serving critical opinions constitutes a violation of the relational principle governing advisory engagements" ;
proeth:textreferences "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 "2026-02-25T16:36:27.857867"^^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
2026-02-25T16:22:54.462969+00:00
First case
20
Generated
2026-02-25T16:22:54.462969+00:00
Attributed to
Case 20 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T16:36:27.857867
Generated by
ProEthica Case 20 Extraction