Honesty in Sub-Professional Bid Representations
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Honesty_in_Sub-Professional_Bid_Representations
Properties
Instance of
HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations
Applied to
Written competitive bid for sub-professional services
Balancing with
Engineering Business-Profession Duality Integrity Principle
PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle
Concrete expression
The PE firm must ensure that all representations in its written bid for sub-professional services are truthful and accurate — including representations about its capacity to perform the work, the qualifications of personnel who will perform it, and the nature of the services being offered — without misrepresenting sub-professional work as professional engineering services or vice versa
Confidence
0.87
Importance
high
Interpretation
Honesty in this context requires accurate characterization of the work as sub-professional and accurate representation of the firm's capabilities for that specific type of work, not its engineering capabilities generally
Invoked by
PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work
Tension resolution
Honesty and non-exploitation are complementary: the firm must be honest about what it is (a PE firm) while not exploiting that identity to gain unfair commercial advantage
Source Evidence
Source text
The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services.
Text references
The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services.
TTL
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case90:Honesty_in_Sub-Professional_Bid_Representations a proeth:HonestyinProfessionalRepresentations,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Honesty in Sub-Professional Bid Representations" ;
proeth:appliedto "Written competitive bid for sub-professional services" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Engineering Business-Profession Duality Integrity Principle",
"PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The PE firm must ensure that all representations in its written bid for sub-professional services are truthful and accurate — including representations about its capacity to perform the work, the qualifications of personnel who will perform it, and the nature of the services being offered — without misrepresenting sub-professional work as professional engineering services or vice versa" ;
proeth:confidence "0.87" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:interpretation "Honesty in this context requires accurate characterization of the work as sub-professional and accurate representation of the firm's capabilities for that specific type of work, not its engineering capabilities generally" ;
proeth:invokedby "PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work" ;
proeth:principleclass "Honesty in Professional Representations" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Honesty and non-exploitation are complementary: the firm must be honest about what it is (a PE firm) while not exploiting that identity to gain unfair commercial advantage" ;
proeth:textreferences "The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 90 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:20:56.410503"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 90 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
90
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
facts
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00
First case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00
Attributed to
Case 90 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:20:56.410503
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction