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PASS 3: Temporal Dynamics

Case 22: Sharing As-Built Drawings

Extraction Complete
Total Entities: 14
Actions: 3
Events: 2
Causal Chains: 3
Allen Relations: 5
Timeline: 5
Timeline Overview
Note: The timeline includes only actions and events with clear temporal markers that could be sequenced chronologically.
Timeline Elements: 5
Actions on Timeline: 3 (of 3 extracted)
Events on Timeline: 2 (of 2 extracted)
Temporal Markers
  • Initially 1 elements
  • Over time 1 elements
  • When contractors begin requesting pre-bid information 1 elements
  • Over time (gradual shift) 1 elements
  • As pattern develops 1 elements
Temporal Consistency Check
Valid
Extracted Actions (3)
Volitional professional decisions with intentions and ethical context

Description: Engineer D provides as-built drawings to contractors after contracts are awarded. This establishes the initial practice of sharing technical information.

Temporal Marker: Initially

Mental State: deliberate

Intended Outcome: Support contractor performance with accurate technical information

Fulfills Obligations:
  • Faithful agent duty
  • Supporting project success
Guided By Principles:
  • Professional competence
  • Public welfare
Required Capabilities:
Technical document management Contract administration
Within Competence: Yes
Scenario Metadata
Pedagogical context for interactive teaching scenarios

Character Motivation: Following standard practice and fulfilling contractual obligations to provide necessary technical information for project execution

Ethical Tension: Professional duty to support project success vs potential future fairness concerns in competitive bidding

Learning Significance: Establishes how routine professional practices can evolve into ethical dilemmas without conscious intent

Stakes: Setting precedent for information sharing practices, maintaining professional relationships

Narrative Role: inciting_incident

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Description: Engineer D continues providing drawings to contractors over time, establishing a pattern. This creates a precedent that influences future contractor expectations.

Temporal Marker: Over time

Mental State: habitual

Intended Outcome: Maintain consistent contractor support and project quality

Fulfills Obligations:
  • Consistent professional practice
Guided By Principles:
  • Professional consistency
  • Quality improvement
Required Capabilities:
Project management Stakeholder relationship management
Within Competence: Yes
Scenario Metadata
Pedagogical context for interactive teaching scenarios

Character Motivation: Maintaining consistency and avoiding contractor complaints by continuing established practice

Ethical Tension: Efficiency and relationship maintenance vs awareness that patterns may create future obligations

Learning Significance: Demonstrates how unreflective continuation of practices can lead to unintended ethical commitments

Stakes: Contractor expectations becoming entrenched, potential for creating unfair advantages

Decision Point: Yes - Story can branch here

Alternative Actions:
  • Document and formalize the drawing provision process
  • Begin restricting drawing access to post-award only

Narrative Role: rising_action

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Description: Engineer D must decide whether to provide as-built drawings to contractors before bid submission when requested. This decision point involves selective information sharing that could affect bidding fairness.

Temporal Marker: When contractors begin requesting pre-bid information

Mental State: conflicted

Intended Outcome: Balance contractor relationships with fair bidding process

Guided By Principles:
  • Fairness
  • Integrity
  • Public trust
Required Capabilities:
Ethical judgment Procurement knowledge Stakeholder management
Within Competence: Yes
Scenario Metadata
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Character Motivation: Balancing contractor relationships and project efficiency against fairness to all potential bidders

Ethical Tension: Professional relationships and practical efficiency vs equal treatment and competitive fairness

Learning Significance: Critical decision point about selective information sharing and its impact on fair competition

Stakes: Bidding process integrity, professional reputation, potential legal challenges, unfair competitive advantages

Decision Point: Yes - Story can branch here

Alternative Actions:
  • Make drawings available to all potential bidders equally
  • Refuse pre-bid drawing requests entirely

Narrative Role: climax

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Extracted Events (2)
Occurrences that trigger ethical considerations and state changes

Description: Contractors begin requesting as-built drawings before bid submission instead of receiving them after contract award, creating a new expectation and procedural precedent.

Temporal Marker: Over time (gradual shift)

Activates Constraints:
  • Fairness_In_Bidding_Constraint
  • Procedural_Consistency_Constraint
Scenario Metadata
Pedagogical context for interactive teaching scenarios

Emotional Impact: Confusion and uncertainty for Engineer D about proper procedures; anxiety among contractors about competitive disadvantage; frustration from those not receiving information

Stakeholder Consequences:
  • engineer_d: Professional dilemma about fairness and proper procedures; potential liability for favoritism
  • contractors_receiving_drawings: Competitive advantage in bidding; better cost estimation capability
  • contractors_not_receiving_drawings: Disadvantage in bidding process; potential for overbidding or underbidding
  • project_owners: Potential for unfair bidding process; risk of legal challenges to contract awards

Learning Moment: Shows how informal practices can evolve into ethical problems; demonstrates importance of consistent procedures in maintaining fairness

Ethical Implications: Reveals tension between helpfulness and fairness; demonstrates how precedent creates obligations; shows evolution of informal practice into ethical dilemma

Discussion Prompts:
  • How do informal practices become ethical obligations?
  • What responsibility does an engineer have to ensure fair competition among contractors?
  • When does providing information to some but not others become discriminatory?
Tension: medium Pacing: slow_burn
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Description: Ethical concerns about fairness and proper procedures surface as the information sharing pattern creates potential advantages for some contractors over others.

Temporal Marker: As pattern develops

Activates Constraints:
  • Professional_Ethics_Constraint
  • Equal_Treatment_Constraint
Scenario Metadata
Pedagogical context for interactive teaching scenarios

Emotional Impact: Stress and concern for Engineer D about professional reputation; worry about past decisions; anxiety about correct course of action

Stakeholder Consequences:
  • engineer_d: Professional reputation at risk; need to address ethical concerns; potential policy changes required
  • contracting_community: Uncertainty about bidding procedures; questions about past bid fairness
  • professional_community: Standards enforcement consideration; precedent setting for similar situations
  • project_stakeholders: Questions about procurement integrity; potential need for process revision

Learning Moment: Demonstrates how ethical issues can emerge gradually from seemingly helpful practices; shows importance of proactive ethical analysis

Ethical Implications: Highlights conflict between individual helpfulness and systemic fairness; demonstrates need for consistent ethical frameworks in professional practice; shows how good intentions can create ethical problems

Discussion Prompts:
  • How should engineers balance helpfulness with fairness obligations?
  • What systems should be in place to identify emerging ethical issues?
  • How can professional practices be evaluated for unintended ethical consequences?
Crisis / Turning Point Tension: medium Pacing: escalation
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Causal Chains (3)
NESS test analysis: Necessary Element of Sufficient Set

Causal Language: Engineer D's practice of providing as-built drawings to contractors after contract award established a precedent that led contractors to expect and eventually request these drawings before bidding

Necessary Factors (NESS):
  • Initial establishment of drawing provision practice
  • Contractor awareness of drawing availability
  • Recognition by contractors of competitive advantage from drawings
Sufficient Factors:
  • Combination of established practice + contractor knowledge + perceived bidding advantage
Counterfactual Test: Without Engineer D's initial practice of providing drawings, contractors would not have known to request them pre-bid
Responsibility Attribution:

Agent: Engineer D
Type: direct
Within Agent Control: Yes

Causal Sequence:
  1. Post-Award Drawing Provision
    Engineer D begins providing as-built drawings to contractors after contract awards
  2. Continued Drawing Distribution
    Engineer D maintains this practice over time, creating contractor familiarity
  3. Contractor Learning Process
    Contractors recognize the value and competitive advantage of having drawings
  4. Strategic Contractor Thinking
    Contractors realize pre-bid access would improve their bidding accuracy and competitiveness
  5. Contractor Request Pattern Shift
    Contractors begin requesting as-built drawings before bid submission
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Causal Language: The shift in contractor behavior to requesting drawings before bidding created ethical dilemmas about fairness and equal access to information in the procurement process

Necessary Factors (NESS):
  • Change in information request timing
  • Potential for unequal access among contractors
  • Ethical standards requiring fair procurement practices
Sufficient Factors:
  • Combination of timing shift + potential inequality + professional ethics requirements
Counterfactual Test: Without the pattern shift, fairness concerns would not have emerged as the post-award provision was ethically neutral
Responsibility Attribution:

Agent: Engineer D
Type: indirect
Within Agent Control: Yes

Causal Sequence:
  1. Contractor Request Pattern Shift
    Contractors begin requesting as-built drawings before bid submission
  2. Information Asymmetry Creation
    Potential for some contractors to have drawings while others do not
  3. Professional Ethics Recognition
    Recognition that unequal access violates fair procurement principles
  4. Fairness Concerns Emergence
    Ethical concerns about fairness and proper procedures surface
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Causal Language: The emergence of fairness concerns directly necessitates Engineer D's decision about whether to provide drawings before bidding, as the ethical issues must be addressed

Necessary Factors (NESS):
  • Recognition of ethical dilemma
  • Professional obligation to act ethically
  • Need to establish consistent policy
Sufficient Factors:
  • Combination of identified ethics issue + professional responsibility
Counterfactual Test: Without fairness concerns emerging, there would be no urgent need to make a formal decision about pre-bid information sharing
Responsibility Attribution:

Agent: Engineer D
Type: direct
Within Agent Control: Yes

Causal Sequence:
  1. Fairness Concerns Emergence
    Ethical concerns about fairness and proper procedures surface
  2. Professional Obligation Recognition
    Engineer D recognizes the professional duty to address ethical concerns
  3. Decision Point Identification
    Clear need to establish policy for future contractor requests
  4. Pre-Bid Information Decision
    Engineer D must decide whether to provide drawings to contractors before bid submission
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  "@id": "http://proethica.org/cases/22#CausalChain_219b20e0",
  "@type": "proeth:CausalChain",
  "proeth:causalLanguage": "The emergence of fairness concerns directly necessitates Engineer D\u0027s decision about whether to provide drawings before bidding, as the ethical issues must be addressed",
  "proeth:causalSequence": [
    {
      "proeth:description": "Ethical concerns about fairness and proper procedures surface",
      "proeth:element": "Fairness Concerns Emergence",
      "proeth:step": 1
    },
    {
      "proeth:description": "Engineer D recognizes the professional duty to address ethical concerns",
      "proeth:element": "Professional Obligation Recognition",
      "proeth:step": 2
    },
    {
      "proeth:description": "Clear need to establish policy for future contractor requests",
      "proeth:element": "Decision Point Identification",
      "proeth:step": 3
    },
    {
      "proeth:description": "Engineer D must decide whether to provide drawings to contractors before bid submission",
      "proeth:element": "Pre-Bid Information Decision",
      "proeth:step": 4
    }
  ],
  "proeth:cause": "Fairness Concerns Emergence",
  "proeth:counterfactual": "Without fairness concerns emerging, there would be no urgent need to make a formal decision about pre-bid information sharing",
  "proeth:effect": "Pre-Bid Information Decision",
  "proeth:necessaryFactors": [
    "Recognition of ethical dilemma",
    "Professional obligation to act ethically",
    "Need to establish consistent policy"
  ],
  "proeth:responsibilityType": "direct",
  "proeth:responsibleAgent": "Engineer D",
  "proeth:sufficientFactors": [
    "Combination of identified ethics issue + professional responsibility"
  ],
  "proeth:withinAgentControl": true
}
Allen Temporal Relations (5)
Interval algebra relationships with OWL-Time standard properties
From Entity Allen Relation To Entity OWL-Time Property Evidence
project advertisement before
Entity1 is before Entity2 		bid submission time:before
http://www.w3.org/2006/time#before 		begin to ask for these documents when projects are advertised, before bids are turned in
bid submission before
Entity1 is before Entity2 		bid opening time:before
http://www.w3.org/2006/time#before 		before bids are turned in... after bid openings
contract award before
Entity1 is before Entity2 		as-built drawing requests time:before
http://www.w3.org/2006/time#before 		After bids are opened and contracts are awarded, the successful sprinkler contractor asks Engineer D...
past as-built provision before
Entity1 is before Entity2 		current requests during advertisement time:before
http://www.w3.org/2006/time#before 		sprinkler contractors who received as-built drawings from Engineer D in the past begin to ask for th...
information sharing before bids before
Entity1 is before Entity2 		contract award decision time:before
http://www.w3.org/2006/time#before 		if information is shared selectively with contractors before bids are opened; will D's actions influ...
About Allen Relations & OWL-Time

Allen's Interval Algebra provides 13 basic temporal relations between intervals. These relations are mapped to OWL-Time standard properties for interoperability with Semantic Web temporal reasoning systems and SPARQL queries.

Each relation includes both a ProEthica custom property and a time:* OWL-Time property for maximum compatibility.

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