FOIA-Requesting Competing Engineer
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http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FOIA-RequestingCompetingEngineer
Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who is a competitor for a public engineering contract submits a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain a copy of a competing firm's qualifications submission to a public agency, bearing obligations to avoid the appearance of impropriety by submitting the FOIA request only after the requesting firm has itself submitted its own qualifications, and to act consistently with applicable public procurement laws and regulations.
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Definition
A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who is a competitor for a public engineering contract submits a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain a copy of a competing firm's qualifications submission to a public agency, bearing obligations to avoid the appearance of impropriety by submitting the FOIA request only after the requesting firm has itself submitted its own qualifications, and to act consistently with applicable public procurement laws and regulations.
Source Evidence
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Engineer B, a competitor of Engineer A, whose firm also intended to respond to the same RFQ, submitted a state Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to obtain a copy of the qualifications information Engineer A submitted to the state.
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rdfs:label "FOIA-Requesting Competing Engineer" ;
rdfs:comment "A licensed professional engineering role in which an engineer who is a competitor for a public engineering contract submits a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to obtain a copy of a competing firm's qualifications submission to a public agency, bearing obligations to avoid the appearance of impropriety by submitting the FOIA request only after the requesting firm has itself submitted its own qualifications, and to act consistently with applicable public procurement laws and regulations." ;
rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicResponsibilityRole> .
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Content Hash
3b709e4f5783c16a...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
99
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
discussion
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T22:54:49.481626+00:00
First Discovered In Case
99
Generated
2026-02-27T22:54:49.481626+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 99 Extraction