Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked Engineer A Municipality Client
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/98#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_Engineer_A_Municipality_Client
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
Decision whether to consult Contractor B informally
Design of water treatment facility for Municipality
Balancing with
Equal Competitive Access in Design-Phase Consultation
Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering
Concrete expression
Engineer A's obligation to serve the Municipality faithfully — including by producing the best possible design documents — must be fulfilled within the ethical limits imposed by procurement fairness, meaning Engineer A cannot justify informal selective consultation with Contractor B on the grounds that it serves the client's design quality interests
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Interpretation
Faithful agency to the Municipality encompasses both design quality and procurement integrity — a faithful agent does not improve design quality through means that would expose the client's procurement process to legal challenge or public criticism
Invoked by
Engineer A Water Treatment Facility Design Engineer Present Case
Tension resolution
Faithful agency is best served by proposing a formal constructability meeting that achieves design quality improvement without compromising procurement integrity
Source Evidence
Source text
Firm X is retained by a municipality to design a water treatment facility
Text references
Engineer A believes that the design documents and the overall project would benefit from discussions with Contractor B
Firm X is retained by a municipality to design a water treatment facility
TTL
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case98:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_Engineer_A_Municipality_Client a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked Engineer A Municipality Client" ;
proeth:appliedto "Decision whether to consult Contractor B informally",
"Design of water treatment facility for Municipality" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Equal Competitive Access in Design-Phase Consultation",
"Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A's obligation to serve the Municipality faithfully — including by producing the best possible design documents — must be fulfilled within the ethical limits imposed by procurement fairness, meaning Engineer A cannot justify informal selective consultation with Contractor B on the grounds that it serves the client's design quality interests" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "98" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-28T00:33:01.909102+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "98" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-28T00:33:01.909102+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Faithful agency to the Municipality encompasses both design quality and procurement integrity — a faithful agent does not improve design quality through means that would expose the client's procurement process to legal challenge or public criticism" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A Water Treatment Facility Design Engineer Present Case" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Firm X is retained by a municipality to design a water treatment facility" ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Faithful agency is best served by proposing a formal constructability meeting that achieves design quality improvement without compromising procurement integrity" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A believes that the design documents and the overall project would benefit from discussions with Contractor B",
"Firm X is retained by a municipality to design a water treatment facility" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 98 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-28T00:43:22.139418"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 98 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
98
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-28T00:33:01.909102+00:00
First case
98
Generated
2026-02-28T00:33:01.909102+00:00
Attributed to
Case 98 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-28T00:43:22.139418
Generated by
ProEthica Case 98 Extraction