You have just been hired by a consulting firm. It is a good position that will give you and your young family financial security. Your first assignment is to assess bids for a study that your client needs to be done. The bids were all due by 3:00 P.M. At 3:30 your boss calls you into his office. He slips one of the submitted bids into an envelope and asks you run it over to one of the firms that you thought was going to bid on the project but had not yet done so. You are told to wait while the agent at this firm looks at the bid in the envelope and formulates his own bid to return to you. You suspect that you are being asked to cooperate in a scheme that is showing favor to your boss's friend. But as a new employee, you want to be seen as a team player. You don't want to jeopardize your job or the financial security of your family, yet it seems wrong to let a competing firm look at someone else's bid. What ought you to do?

A. What is the statement of the moral problem?

B. What are the relevant facts (objects and circumstances)

C. Who are the stakeholders or persons concerned/affected?

D. List down atleast 3 possible moral options then discuss their respective guiding ethical theoris/principles?

E. What would by your best moral option? Why is that so?

F. What is your moral justification or final remarks