PE-Credential-Non-Exploitation-Sub-Professional-Bid-PE-Firm
Individual
9ddd76fc
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#PE-Credential-Non-Exploitation-Sub-Professional-Bid-PE-Firm
Properties
Parent
PECredentialNon-ExploitationinSub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidConstraint
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PECredentialNon-ExploitationinSub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidConstraint
Casecontext
All principals of the firm are licensed PEs; the work being bid is sub-professional in character; competing firms may not hold PE licenses
Concept Category
Constraint
Confidence
0.82
Constrainedentity
PE firm submitting competitive bid for sub-professional services
Constraintclass
PE Credential Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Competitive Bid Constraint
Constraintstatement
The PE firm is prohibited from invoking or leveraging its PE licensure status as a competitive differentiator in its written bid for sub-professional services; it must compete solely on commercial merit and qualifications relevant to the sub-professional work, not on the basis of professional credentials that are not qualifying criteria for the work being bid.
Importance
high
Severity
high
Source
NSPE Code of Ethics; BER sub-professional services precedent; antitrust rulings
Temporalscope
At time of bid preparation and submission
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
9ddd76fc8d05fafd...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
2026-03-02T16:20:56.413446
Generated By
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction