Engineer D Pre-Bid Selective Information Sharing Prohibition As-Built Drawings
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/22#Engineer_D_Pre-Bid_Selective_Information_Sharing_Prohibition_As-Built_Drawings
Properties
Instance of
Pre-BidSelectiveInformationSharingProhibitionObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Pre-BidSelectiveInformationSharingProhibitionObligation
Case context
Sprinkler contractors who had previously received as-built drawings post-award began requesting those same documents pre-bid, and Engineer D was considering whether to provide them.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer D
Obligation statement
Engineer D was obligated to refrain from sharing as-built drawings selectively with some contractors before bids were opened, recognizing that selective pre-bid disclosure would give favored contractors an unfair informational advantage and compromise the integrity of the competitive procurement process.
Temporal scope
Before bid opening for any renovation project involving existing sprinkler systems
Relationships
Source Evidence
Source text
It would be unethical for D to share as-builts with selected contractors pre-bid.
Text references
It would be unethical for D to share as-builts with selected contractors pre-bid.
Working through informal mechanisms on public projects can give the appearance of impropriety or favoritism.
if information is shared selectively with contractors before bids are opened; will D's actions influence the award of a contract?
TTL
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case22:Engineer_D_Pre-Bid_Selective_Information_Sharing_Prohibition_As-Built_Drawings a proeth:Pre-BidSelectiveInformationSharingProhibitionObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer D Pre-Bid Selective Information Sharing Prohibition As-Built Drawings" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case22:Engineer_D_Equal_Pre-Bid_Information_Access_Enforcement_Sprinkler_Contractors ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/22#Informal_Pre-Bid_As-Built_Request_Pattern_—_Selective_Pre-Bid_Sharing_Risk> ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case22:Engineer_D_Fire_Protection_System_As-Built_Safety_Disclosure_Renovation_Projects ;
proeth:casecontext "Sprinkler contractors who had previously received as-built drawings post-award began requesting those same documents pre-bid, and Engineer D was considering whether to provide them." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case22:Equal_Access_to_Bid_Information_Invoked_for_Pre-Bid_As-Built_Sharing,
case22:Procurement_Integrity_Invoked_for_Engineer_D_Pre-Bid_Sharing_Prohibition ;
proeth:discoveredincase "22" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T20:00:26.335542+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "22" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T20:00:26.335542+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer D" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Pre-Bid Selective Information Sharing Prohibition Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer D was obligated to refrain from sharing as-built drawings selectively with some contractors before bids were opened, recognizing that selective pre-bid disclosure would give favored contractors an unfair informational advantage and compromise the integrity of the competitive procurement process." ;
proeth:sourcetext "It would be unethical for D to share as-builts with selected contractors pre-bid." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Before bid opening for any renovation project involving existing sprinkler systems" ;
proeth:textreferences "It would be unethical for D to share as-builts with selected contractors pre-bid.",
"Working through informal mechanisms on public projects can give the appearance of impropriety or favoritism.",
"if information is shared selectively with contractors before bids are opened; will D's actions influence the award of a contract?" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 22 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T20:07:58.301662"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 22 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
22
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T20:00:26.335542+00:00
First case
22
Generated
2026-02-25T20:00:26.335542+00:00
Attributed to
Case 22 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T20:07:58.301662
Generated by
ProEthica Case 22 Extraction