Equal Access to Bid Information Invoked in QBS Deadline Enforcement
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#Equal_Access_to_Bid_Information_Invoked_in_QBS_Deadline_Enforcement
Properties
Instance of
EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement
Applied to
All 14 pre-submittal meeting participants
Firm B late submittal
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
The published submittal deadline and location requirements were equally and publicly communicated to all 14 firms that participated in the pre-submittal meeting, appearing on the RFQ webpage and the hard copy agenda — enforcement of these requirements equally for all firms is the corollary obligation to the equal access that was provided
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
Equal access to procurement information creates a corresponding obligation to apply procurement requirements equally — firms that received equal notice of the deadline are entitled to equal enforcement of that deadline against all competitors
Invoked by
Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact
Tension resolution
Equal treatment of all competing firms requires uniform deadline enforcement; allowing Firm B's late submittal would disadvantage the other firms that complied with the published requirements
Source Evidence
Source text
The date, time, and location were also listed in the city's RFQ webpage and appeared on the hard copy agenda that was distributed at the pre-submittal meeting.
Text references
The city conducted a mandatory pre-submittal meeting and received initial interest from 14 different firms.
The date, time, and location were also listed in the city's RFQ webpage and appeared on the hard copy agenda that was distributed at the pre-submittal meeting.
TTL
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case99:Equal_Access_to_Bid_Information_Invoked_in_QBS_Deadline_Enforcement a proeth:EqualAccesstoBidInformationinPublicProcurement,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Equal Access to Bid Information Invoked in QBS Deadline Enforcement" ;
proeth:appliedto "All 14 pre-submittal meeting participants",
"Firm B late submittal" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The published submittal deadline and location requirements were equally and publicly communicated to all 14 firms that participated in the pre-submittal meeting, appearing on the RFQ webpage and the hard copy agenda — enforcement of these requirements equally for all firms is the corollary obligation to the equal access that was provided" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "99" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-27T22:56:57.985736+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "99" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-27T22:56:57.985736+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Equal access to procurement information creates a corresponding obligation to apply procurement requirements equally — firms that received equal notice of the deadline are entitled to equal enforcement of that deadline against all competitors" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact" ;
proeth:principleclass "Equal Access to Bid Information in Public Procurement" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The date, time, and location were also listed in the city's RFQ webpage and appeared on the hard copy agenda that was distributed at the pre-submittal meeting." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Equal treatment of all competing firms requires uniform deadline enforcement; allowing Firm B's late submittal would disadvantage the other firms that complied with the published requirements" ;
proeth:textreferences "The city conducted a mandatory pre-submittal meeting and received initial interest from 14 different firms.",
"The date, time, and location were also listed in the city's RFQ webpage and appeared on the hard copy agenda that was distributed at the pre-submittal meeting." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 99 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:08:45.584678"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 99 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
99
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-02-27T22:56:57.985736+00:00
First case
99
Generated
2026-02-27T22:56:57.985736+00:00
Attributed to
Case 99 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-27T23:08:45.584678
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction