Prior Favorable Relationship with Competing Firm State
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9b60b3e3
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PriorFavorableRelationshipwithCompetingFirmState
Definition
State in which a public agency engineer serving on a procurement evaluation team has a documented history of positive professional experience with one of the competing firms — including prior successful project delivery — creating a structural risk that the engineer's evaluation of that firm's submission, or procedural decisions affecting that firm's eligibility, may be consciously or unconsciously influenced by that prior relationship, thereby compromising the objectivity and impartiality required in a QBS or competitive selection process.
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Definition
State in which a public agency engineer serving on a procurement evaluation team has a documented history of positive professional experience with one of the competing firms — including prior successful project delivery — creating a structural risk that the engineer's evaluation of that firm's submission, or procedural decisions affecting that firm's eligibility, may be consciously or unconsciously influenced by that prior relationship, thereby compromising the objectivity and impartiality required in a QBS or competitive selection process.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Firm B had also performed well on several other engineering design projects for the city
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Ontology
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Content Hash
9b60b3e3dd303d64...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
99
Discovered In Pass
1
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-27T22:54:07.036410+00:00
First Discovered In Case
99
Generated
2026-02-27T22:54:07.036410+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 99 Extraction