City Manager Administrative Assistant Non-Facilitation Misdirected Submittal
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#City_Manager_Administrative_Assistant_Non-Facilitation_Misdirected_Submittal
Properties
Instance of
HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation
Case context
The city manager's administrative assistant received Firm B's envelope at the city manager's office at 2:05 pm on January 30 — after the deadline and at the wrong location — and then presented it to Engineer A; the Board found this action, however well-intentioned, did not cure the procedural defect.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.82
Importance
medium
Obligated party
City Manager Administrative Assistant (City X)
Obligation statement
The city manager's administrative assistant was obligated to refrain from receiving and forwarding Firm B's misdirected QBS submittal to Engineer A, recognizing that accepting a submittal at the wrong location — even with good intent — introduced a procedural irregularity into the procurement process that compromised its integrity.
Temporal scope
At the time Firm B's envelope was delivered to the city manager's office on January 30
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Late SOQ Submission - Firm B
Source Evidence
Source text
the city manager's administrative assistant's act of receiving Firm B's misdirected envelope and presenting it to Engineer A — however well-intentioned
Text references
the city manager's administrative assistant's act of receiving Firm B's misdirected envelope and presenting it to Engineer A — however well-intentioned
while in this case there does not appear to be a nefarious cause for Firm B's failure to deliver the submittal to the correct city office by the required hour
TTL
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case99:City_Manager_Administrative_Assistant_Non-Facilitation_Misdirected_Submittal a proeth:HonorableProfessionalConductinProcurementObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "City Manager Administrative Assistant Non-Facilitation Misdirected Submittal" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case99:Engineer_A_QBS_Deadline_Strict_Enforcement_Firm_B_Rejection ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case99:Late_SOQ_Submission_-_Firm_B ;
proeth:casecontext "The city manager's administrative assistant received Firm B's envelope at the city manager's office at 2:05 pm on January 30 — after the deadline and at the wrong location — and then presented it to Engineer A; the Board found this action, however well-intentioned, did not cure the procedural defect." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.82" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case99:Good_Intent_Does_Not_Cure_Procedural_Impropriety_Invoked_for_Administrative_Assistant_Action,
<http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#Misdirected_Submittal_Non-Acceptance_—_City_Manager_Office_Receipt> ;
proeth:discoveredincase "99" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T23:02:03.113089+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "99" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T23:02:03.113089+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "medium" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "City Manager Administrative Assistant (City X)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Honorable Professional Conduct in Procurement Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The city manager's administrative assistant was obligated to refrain from receiving and forwarding Firm B's misdirected QBS submittal to Engineer A, recognizing that accepting a submittal at the wrong location — even with good intent — introduced a procedural irregularity into the procurement process that compromised its integrity." ;
proeth:sourcetext "the city manager's administrative assistant's act of receiving Firm B's misdirected envelope and presenting it to Engineer A — however well-intentioned" ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time Firm B's envelope was delivered to the city manager's office on January 30" ;
proeth:textreferences "the city manager's administrative assistant's act of receiving Firm B's misdirected envelope and presenting it to Engineer A — however well-intentioned",
"while in this case there does not appear to be a nefarious cause for Firm B's failure to deliver the submittal to the correct city office by the required hour" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 99 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:08:45.593221"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 99 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
99
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-27T23:02:03.113089+00:00
First case
99
Generated
2026-02-27T23:02:03.113089+00:00
Attributed to
Case 99 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:08:45.593221
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction