You have been invited to put a bid in to supply engineered products for a major governmental project. The contract has two components: providing the products and then training and monitoring the progress of the project for two years. You have reviewed the protocols and have been stewing over how to put in the "lowest responsible bid." You have poked around in the industry and know that different companies follow different strategies. The RFP (request for proposal) does not directly address the issue of contract adjustments over the life of the contract, but the practice of adjusting contracts in the future to account for services that were not reasonably anticipated at the time of the bid appears to be acceptable.
1. Be Attentive: Set the Context
Ethical Actor
The first step is to identify the ethical actor. In a sentence identify the ethical actor for this problem.
2. Stakeholders
The next step is to identify the stakeholders. List the other stakeholders for this problem.
3. Assumptions
In two or three bullet points, identify any assumptions you are making about the problem.
4. Be Intelligent: Identify the Issue and the Values in Tension
Issue
5. Values in Tension
In three or four bullet points, identify the values in tension.