Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked for Engineer A QBS Administration Role
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_QBS_Administration_Role
Properties
Instance of
FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits
Applied to
City X Municipal Infrastructure Client
Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor
Balancing with
Fairness in Professional Competition
Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering
Concrete expression
Engineer A, as the point of contact on City X's QBS review team, bears a faithful agent obligation to administer the QBS process in accordance with the city's published requirements and applicable procurement law — including enforcing the published deadline and location requirements — while retaining the professional authority to flag the Firm B situation to appropriate city officials for a final institutional determination
Confidence
0.85
Importance
high
Interpretation
The faithful agent obligation requires Engineer A to administer the process as published, but also to escalate the unusual misdirection situation to appropriate city officials — such as the city attorney or procurement officer — for a final determination, rather than making a unilateral discretionary decision to accept or reject
Invoked by
Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact
Tension resolution
The faithful agent obligation is discharged by following published requirements and escalating the unusual situation to appropriate institutional authority for final determination
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project.
Text references
Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project.
Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant
TTL
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case99:Faithful_Agent_Obligation_Invoked_for_Engineer_A_QBS_Administration_Role a proeth:FaithfulAgentObligationWithinEthicalLimits,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Faithful Agent Obligation Invoked for Engineer A QBS Administration Role" ;
proeth:appliedto "City X Municipal Infrastructure Client",
"Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Fairness in Professional Competition",
"Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A, as the point of contact on City X's QBS review team, bears a faithful agent obligation to administer the QBS process in accordance with the city's published requirements and applicable procurement law — including enforcing the published deadline and location requirements — while retaining the professional authority to flag the Firm B situation to appropriate city officials for a final institutional determination" ;
proeth:confidence "0.85" ;
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 "The faithful agent obligation requires Engineer A to administer the process as published, but also to escalate the unusual misdirection situation to appropriate city officials — such as the city attorney or procurement officer — for a final determination, rather than making a unilateral discretionary decision to accept or reject" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact" ;
proeth:principleclass "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The faithful agent obligation is discharged by following published requirements and escalating the unusual situation to appropriate institutional authority for final determination" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project.",
"Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 99 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:08:45.585956"^^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
2026-02-27T23:08:45.585956
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction