Business-Form-Non-Influence-Ethics-PE-Firm-Sub-Professional-Bid
Individual
3f4a1134
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Business-Form-Non-Influence-Ethics-PE-Firm-Sub-Professional-Bid
Properties
Parent
Business-FormNon-InfluenceonIndividualEthicsCodeConformanceConstraint
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Business-FormNon-InfluenceonIndividualEthicsCodeConformanceConstraint
Casecontext
PE firm with all-PE principals operating in commercial sub-professional services market
Concept Category
Constraint
Confidence
0.85
Constrainedentity
Individual PE principals of the firm submitting sub-professional bid
Constraintclass
Business-Form Non-Influence on Individual Ethics Code Conformance Constraint
Constraintstatement
The fact that the PE firm is organized as a commercial entity submitting a price-based competitive bid for sub-professional services does not reduce or eliminate the individual ethical obligations of each PE principal; each principal remains bound by the NSPE Code of Ethics in their personal conduct throughout the bid process regardless of the commercial business form.
Importance
medium
Severity
medium
Source
NSPE Board of Directors directive (January 1971); NSPE Code of Ethics
Temporalscope
Throughout bid preparation and submission and performance of sub-professional work
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
TTL
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Metadata
Ontology
Type
Individual
Content Hash
3f4a113489cccd4d...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
2026-03-02T16:20:56.413855
Generated By
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction