QBS Submittal Deadline Integrity Invoked for Firm B Late Submittal
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/99#QBS_Submittal_Deadline_Integrity_Invoked_for_Firm_B_Late_Submittal
Properties
Instance of
QBSSubmittalDeadlineIntegrityandEqualTreatmentObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#QBSSubmittalDeadlineIntegrityandEqualTreatmentObligation
Applied to
City X QBS process
Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor
Balancing with
Client Loyalty
Fairness in Professional Competition
Concrete expression
The published deadline of 10:00 am on January 30 at the city clerk's office is a material procurement requirement; Firm B's submittal received at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office is non-compliant on both the time dimension (4 hours and 5 minutes late) and the location dimension (wrong office), and Engineer A must treat it as such regardless of Firm B's prior performance
Confidence
0.9
Importance
high
Interpretation
The deadline integrity obligation requires Engineer A to reject the late submittal and notify Firm B, without exercising discretion to accept it based on the sympathetic misdirection circumstances or Firm B's prior good performance
Invoked by
Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact
Tension resolution
Deadline integrity and equal treatment of all competing firms is the controlling obligation; the misdirection to the city manager's office does not constitute delivery to the city clerk's office as required
Source Evidence
Source text
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.
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.
Firm B had also performed well on several other engineering design projects for the city.
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.
TTL
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case99:QBS_Submittal_Deadline_Integrity_Invoked_for_Firm_B_Late_Submittal a proeth:QBSSubmittalDeadlineIntegrityandEqualTreatmentObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "QBS Submittal Deadline Integrity Invoked for Firm B Late Submittal" ;
proeth:appliedto "City X QBS process",
"Firm B Late Submittal QBS Competitor" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Client Loyalty",
"Fairness in Professional Competition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The published deadline of 10:00 am on January 30 at the city clerk's office is a material procurement requirement; Firm B's submittal received at 2:05 pm in the city manager's office is non-compliant on both the time dimension (4 hours and 5 minutes late) and the location dimension (wrong office), and Engineer A must treat it as such regardless of Firm B's prior performance" ;
proeth:confidence "0.9" ;
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 deadline integrity obligation requires Engineer A to reject the late submittal and notify Firm B, without exercising discretion to accept it based on the sympathetic misdirection circumstances or Firm B's prior good performance" ;
proeth:invokedby "Engineer A QBS Review Team Point of Contact" ;
proeth:principleclass "QBS Submittal Deadline Integrity and Equal Treatment Obligation" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Deadline integrity and equal treatment of all competing firms is the controlling obligation; the misdirection to the city manager's office does not constitute delivery to the city clerk's office as required" ;
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.",
"Firm B had also performed well on several other engineering design projects for the city.",
"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." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 99 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-27T23:08:45.584842"^^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
2026-02-27T23:08:45.584842
Generated by
ProEthica Case 99 Extraction