Antitrust-Code-Scope-Sub-Professional-Bid-PE-Firm
Individual
36eb004e
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Antitrust-Code-Scope-Sub-Professional-Bid-PE-Firm
Properties
Parent
Antitrust-ConstrainedProfessionalCodeGuidanceProhibitionConstraint
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Antitrust-ConstrainedProfessionalCodeGuidanceProhibitionConstraint
Casecontext
PE firm with all-PE principals invited to submit written competitive bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services
Concept Category
Constraint
Confidence
0.9
Constrainedentity
PE firm submitting competitive bid for sub-professional services
Constraintclass
Antitrust-Constrained Professional Code Guidance Prohibition Constraint
Constraintstatement
The PE firm is constrained by antitrust law from treating engineering code competitive bidding prohibitions as applicable to its sub-professional services bid; the code's restrictions on competitive bidding do not extend to sub-professional work, and the firm may submit a price-based competitive bid without violating professional ethics.
Importance
high
Severity
high
Source
NSPE Code of Ethics; DOJ antitrust rulings; BER sub-professional services precedent
Temporalscope
At the time of bid submission and throughout the sub-professional engagement
Source Evidence
Source Text
An engineering firm in which all the principals are professional engineers provides services on occasion of a type and nature regarded as sub-professional in character
Text References
An engineering firm in which all the principals are professional engineers provides services on occasion of a type and nature regarded as sub-professional in character
The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services.
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
36eb004e68a8da93...Last Updated
2026-03-08 16:29
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
90
Discovered in Pass
2
Discovered in Section
facts
First Discovered
2026-03-02T16:09:56.570760+00:00
First Case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:09:56.570760+00:00
Attributed To
Case 90 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:20:56.407113
Generated By
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction