Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Present Case Municipality Client
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/98#Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Present_Case_Municipality_Client
Properties
Instance of
Case context
Engineer A, employed by Firm X, was designing a municipal water treatment facility and sought constructability input from Contractor B, a prospective bidder with whom Engineer A had a prior working relationship. The faithful agent duty required serving the Municipality's design quality interests while honoring the Municipality's interest in a fair competitive procurement.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer A (present case)
Obligation statement
Engineer A was obligated to serve the Municipality's interests faithfully — including by producing the best possible design documents for the water treatment facility — within the ethical limits imposed by the obligation to preserve the integrity of the public bidding process.
Temporal scope
Throughout the design phase of the water treatment facility project
Relationships
competesWith
Engineer A Competitive Procurement Fairness Obligation Water Treatment Bidding, Engineer A Design Phase Constructability Consultation Equal Access Present Case
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineers have an ethical obligation to act as faithful agents or trustees for the benefit of their employers or clients.
Text references
Engineers have an ethical obligation to act as faithful agents or trustees for the benefit of their employers or clients.
In the Board's view, this objective could be achieved in a manner that not only permits Engineer A to gain the necessary contractor input, but also honors the client's interest in maintaining the integrity of the public bidding process.
This obligation is rooted in the notion that the engineer's actions must be aligned with the goals of the employer or client.
TTL
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case98:Engineer_A_Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Present_Case_Municipality_Client a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer A Faithful Agent Obligation Present Case Municipality Client" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case98:Engineer_A_Competitive_Procurement_Fairness_Obligation_Water_Treatment_Bidding,
case98:Engineer_A_Design_Phase_Constructability_Consultation_Equal_Access_Present_Case ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case98:Engineer_A_Pre-Bid_Constructability_Consultation_Conflict,
case98:Municipality_Public_Bidding_Process_-_Equitable_Access_State ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer A, employed by Firm X, was designing a municipal water treatment facility and sought constructability input from Contractor B, a prospective bidder with whom Engineer A had a prior working relationship. The faithful agent duty required serving the Municipality's design quality interests while honoring the Municipality's interest in a fair competitive procurement." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case98:Client_Loyalty_Invoked_By_Engineer_A_Present_Case_Bidding_Integrity,
case98:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_Engineer_A_Municipality_Client ;
proeth:discoveredincase "98" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T00:37:33.627657+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "98" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T00:37:33.627657+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer A (present case)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Faithful Agent Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer A was obligated to serve the Municipality's interests faithfully — including by producing the best possible design documents for the water treatment facility — within the ethical limits imposed by the obligation to preserve the integrity of the public bidding process." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineers have an ethical obligation to act as faithful agents or trustees for the benefit of their employers or clients." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the design phase of the water treatment facility project" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineers have an ethical obligation to act as faithful agents or trustees for the benefit of their employers or clients.",
"In the Board's view, this objective could be achieved in a manner that not only permits Engineer A to gain the necessary contractor input, but also honors the client's interest in maintaining the integrity of the public bidding process.",
"This obligation is rooted in the notion that the engineer's actions must be aligned with the goals of the employer or client." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 98 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T00:43:22.150298"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 98 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
98
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:37:33.627657+00:00
First case
98
Generated
2026-02-28T00:37:33.627657+00:00
Attributed to
Case 98 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:43:22.150298
Generated by
ProEthica Case 98 Extraction