Assignment:
Case Study:
A general contractor is developing a proposal for the construction of a medical clinic. Since the contract will be executed prior to the completion of the design, the contract will be negotiated on a cost-plus fixed-fee basis with a guaranteed maximum price. There is a significant site work required for the project, and the contractor has decided to ask five subcontractors for quotations for site work bid package.
The contractor estimator received the five quotations and upon review determined that the preferred subcontractor did not submit the lowest price. The estimator then contacted the preferred site work subcontractor, told them that their price was 10 percent higher than the lowest quotation received, and asked the subcontractor if they would like to lower their price by 10 percent in order to receive the contract.
Outline Template for Case Studies
I. Your name
II. Case study number
III. Identify the relationships featured by the case study
Contractor to Subcontractor
IV. Identify the ethical dilemma and the person (or company) who has the dilemma
The estimator has the first dilemma. The estimator has violated the fair process by contacting them and briefing them that their price is higher.Does he allow other subcontractors to resubmit their proposals or does he continue with providing an unfair advantage to a particular subcontractor out of personal bias.
The subcontractor at the company who has been contacted by the estimator faces the second dilemma. The subcontractor has two dilemmas. Does he use the information and re-submit proposal with reduce price and win it? (Unfair process) Or does he ignore the information and risk losing the contract? Which is not beneficial for the company.
V. What is my claim? What should this person do? What would you do?
Be prepared to defend your claim.
VI. Why is my claim ethical?
Your reasons explaining your decision should be consistent with a particular ethical theory given in the text and cited below. Your reasons should address why your claim is ethical. Do not include reasons such as, It would hurt my reputation or It would cost me money. These may seem like compelling reasons to you, but they do not address the question of ethics.
VII. What ethical theory supports my claim and why?
Use one or more of the theories discussed in the text or class that support your claim. Provide citations as required. Citations acknowledge the contributions of others and give your argument more credibility.
VIII. Qualifications
Do I acknowledge alternatives, complications, objections, and how do I respond? Careful readers will question your argument, so you should anticipate as many of their questions as you can, and then respond to the most important ones. Provide citations as appropriate. This will give your argument more credibility.
IX. Case study questions
X. Word count
I have I, II, III, IV complete. However my professor is expecting 900 to 1200 words on this case study so as much detail as possible would be greatly appreciated. Under V, VI, VII and VIII are the descriptions she put to guide us in what she is looking for under those sections. Any help or added information would be a huge help as I have a genral answer to those sections but cannot seem to fill in 900 to 1200 words worth.