Equal Access to Bid Information Violated By Post-Award Informal Disclosure
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/22#Equal_Access_to_Bid_Information_Violated_By_Post-Award_Informal_Disclosure
Properties
Instance of
EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement
Applied to
Pre-bid requests for as-built drawings from contractors with prior post-award experience
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Responsive professional service
Concrete expression
Engineer D's practice of providing as-built drawings to successful contractors after award created a class of contractors with knowledge of the drawings' availability, who then sought them pre-bid — giving those contractors an informational advantage over competitors who did not know to request the drawings
Confidence
0.94
Importance
high
Interpretation
The evolution from post-award disclosure to pre-bid requests illustrates how informal information sharing creates de facto information asymmetry among bidders, violating the equal access principle even when no single disclosure was intended to confer advantage
Invoked by
Engineer D As-Built Information Custodian
Pre-Bid Sprinkler Contractor Documentation Requester
Tension resolution
Equal access requires that all bidders receive the same information through the same formal channels, superseding any individual engineer's responsive inclination to share helpful technical information informally
Source Evidence
Source text
sprinkler contractors who received as-built drawings from Engineer D in the past begin to ask for these documents when projects are advertised, before bids are turned in
Text references
sprinkler contractors who received as-built drawings from Engineer D in the past begin to ask for these documents when projects are advertised, before bids are turned in
TTL
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case22:Equal_Access_to_Bid_Information_Violated_By_Post-Award_Informal_Disclosure a proeth:EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Equal Access to Bid Information Violated By Post-Award Informal Disclosure" ;
proeth:appliedto "Pre-bid requests for as-built drawings from contractors with prior post-award experience" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits",
"Responsive professional service" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer D's practice of providing as-built drawings to successful contractors after award created a class of contractors with knowledge of the drawings' availability, who then sought them pre-bid — giving those contractors an informational advantage over competitors who did not know to request the drawings" ;
proeth:confidence "0.94" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "22" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T19:54:40.098491+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "22" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T19:54:40.098491+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "The evolution from post-award disclosure to pre-bid requests illustrates how informal information sharing creates de facto information asymmetry among bidders, violating the equal access principle even when no single disclosure was intended to confer advantage" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer D As-Built Information Custodian",
"Pre-Bid Sprinkler Contractor Documentation Requester" ;
proeth:principleclass "Equal Access to Bid Information in Public Procurement" ;
proeth:sourcetext "sprinkler contractors who received as-built drawings from Engineer D in the past begin to ask for these documents when projects are advertised, before bids are turned in" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Equal access requires that all bidders receive the same information through the same formal channels, superseding any individual engineer's responsive inclination to share helpful technical information informally" ;
proeth:textreferences "sprinkler contractors who received as-built drawings from Engineer D in the past begin to ask for these documents when projects are advertised, before bids are turned in" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 22 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T20:07:58.294559"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 22 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
22
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-25T19:54:40.098491+00:00
First case
22
Generated
2026-02-25T19:54:40.098491+00:00
Attributed to
Case 22 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T20:07:58.294559
Generated by
ProEthica Case 22 Extraction