SCENARIO 2:
Your agency tasks you to review bids on a contract to buy 500,000 mechanical pencils. Your review would involve comparing the price and quality of the pencils offered by the various competitors. One of the bidders is the Nan Mee Company Limited. Neither you nor anybody to whom you have personal or business ties has any financial interest in that company. However, if find Nan Mee company wins the contract, it will subcontract to Ming Tian, Ltd., a company based in Hong Kong. Your spouse is employed on a salary by Ming Tian as a quality control specialist.