Procurement Integrity Invoked by Engineer A QBS Administration
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#Procurement_Integrity_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_QBS_Administration
Properties
Instance of
ProcurementIntegrityinPublicEngineering
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProcurementIntegrityinPublicEngineering
Applied to
City X QBS process for new public building
Firm B late submittal decision
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits
Concrete expression
Engineer A, as point of contact on the City X QBS review team, bears an obligation to ensure that the QBS process is administered through lawful, fair, and qualification-based selection procedures — including enforcing the published submittal deadline and location requirements uniformly for all 14 firms that participated in the pre-submittal meeting
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Interpretation
Procurement integrity in this context requires that the published deadline of 10:00 am on January 30 at the city clerk's office be treated as a binding requirement, and that Firm B's submittal received at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office be treated as non-compliant regardless of the firm's prior performance record
Invoked by
Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact
Tension resolution
Procurement integrity and equal treatment of all competing firms overrides any discretionary consideration of Firm B's prior satisfactory performance or the sympathetic circumstances of misdirection
Source Evidence
Source text
City X published the date, time, and location of the submittal for the Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) indicating all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30.
Text references
City X published the date, time, and location of the submittal for the Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) indicating all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30.
Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project.
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:Procurement_Integrity_Invoked_by_Engineer_A_QBS_Administration a proeth:ProcurementIntegrityinPublicEngineering,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Procurement Integrity Invoked by Engineer A QBS Administration" ;
proeth:appliedto "City X QBS process for new public building",
"Firm B late submittal decision" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Faithful Agent Obligation Within Ethical Limits" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "Engineer A, as point of contact on the City X QBS review team, bears an obligation to ensure that the QBS process is administered through lawful, fair, and qualification-based selection procedures — including enforcing the published submittal deadline and location requirements uniformly for all 14 firms that participated in the pre-submittal meeting" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
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 "Procurement integrity in this context requires that the published deadline of 10:00 am on January 30 at the city clerk's office be treated as a binding requirement, and that Firm B's submittal received at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office be treated as non-compliant regardless of the firm's prior performance record" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact" ;
proeth:principleclass "Procurement Integrity in Public Engineering" ;
proeth:sourcetext "City X published the date, time, and location of the submittal for the Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) indicating all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Procurement integrity and equal treatment of all competing firms overrides any discretionary consideration of Firm B's prior satisfactory performance or the sympathetic circumstances of misdirection" ;
proeth:textreferences "City X published the date, time, and location of the submittal for the Statements of Qualifications (SOQs) indicating all submittals must be received by the city in the city clerk's office no later than 10:00 am on January 30.",
"Engineer A is the point of contact on the City X QBS review team for this project.",
"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 "2026-02-27T23:08:45.584497"^^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
2026-02-27T23:08:45.584497
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction