Misdirected Submittal Non-Acceptance Obligation Invoked by Engineer A
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#Misdirected_Submittal_Non-Acceptance_Obligation_Invoked_by_Engineer_A
Properties
Instance of
MisdirectedSubmittalNon-AcceptanceObligationinPublicProcurement
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#MisdirectedSubmittalNon-AcceptanceObligationinPublicProcurement
Applied to
City Manager Administrative Assistant Submittal Intermediary
Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor
Balancing with
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Firm B's envelope was delivered to the city manager's office rather than the city clerk's office as required, and was then presented to Engineer A by the city manager's administrative assistant — Engineer A must not treat this misdirected delivery as compliant with the published location requirement, even though the envelope ultimately reached a city employee
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Interpretation
The city manager's office is not the designated submittal location; receipt there does not constitute receipt by the city clerk's office, and the subsequent physical transfer of the envelope to Engineer A does not cure the location defect or the time defect
Invoked by
Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact
Tension resolution
The non-acceptance obligation controls; Engineer A should not accept the submittal and should document the incident, notifying Firm B and the procurement record
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant, who had a large envelope bearing Engineer A's name and the letterhead of Firm B, one of the firms that had participated in the pre-submittal meeting.
Text references
Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant, who had a large envelope bearing Engineer A's name and the letterhead of Firm B
The envelope was date- and time-stamped to indicate that the submittal was received on January 30 at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office.
all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30
TTL
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case99:Misdirected_Submittal_Non-Acceptance_Obligation_Invoked_by_Engineer_A a proeth:MisdirectedSubmittalNon-AcceptanceObligationinPublicProcurement,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Misdirected Submittal Non-Acceptance Obligation Invoked by Engineer A" ;
proeth:appliedto "City Manager Administrative Assistant Submittal Intermediary",
"Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Firm B's envelope was delivered to the city manager's office rather than the city clerk's office as required, and was then presented to Engineer A by the city manager's administrative assistant — Engineer A must not treat this misdirected delivery as compliant with the published location requirement, even though the envelope ultimately reached a city employee" ;
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 "The city manager's office is not the designated submittal location; receipt there does not constitute receipt by the city clerk's office, and the subsequent physical transfer of the envelope to Engineer A does not cure the location defect or the time defect" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact" ;
proeth:principleclass "Misdirected Submittal Non-Acceptance Obligation in Public Procurement" ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant, who had a large envelope bearing Engineer A's name and the letterhead of Firm B, one of the firms that had participated in the pre-submittal meeting." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The non-acceptance obligation controls; Engineer A should not accept the submittal and should document the incident, notifying Firm B and the procurement record" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer A returned to his office in the afternoon on January 30 and was intercepted by the city manager's administrative assistant, who had a large envelope bearing Engineer A's name and the letterhead of Firm B",
"The envelope was date- and time-stamped to indicate that the submittal was received on January 30 at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office.",
"all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 99 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:08:45.585000"^^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
2026-02-27T23:08:45.585000
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction