PE Firm Sub-Professional Bid Competitive Bidding Rationale-Scope Permissibility
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#PE_Firm_Sub-Professional_Bid_Competitive_Bidding_Rationale-Scope_Permissibility
Properties
Instance of
Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBiddingRationale-ScopePermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBiddingRationale-ScopePermissibilityObligation
Case context
The PE firm has been invited to submit a written competitive bid for work that is solely sub-professional in character; the ethics body must determine whether competitive bidding is permissible.
Compliance status
met
Confidence
0.91
Importance
high
Obligated party
PE-Principal Engineering Firm and ethics adjudicatory body
Obligation statement
The PE firm and the ethics body are obligated to recognize that competitive bidding for the sub-professional services is ethically permissible because the quality-protection rationale underlying the prohibition on competitive bidding for professional services does not apply to sub-professional work that can be clearly and accurately specified.
Temporal scope
At the time of submitting the competitive bid and at the time of ethics adjudication
Relationships
competesWith
PE Firm Mixed-Practice Work Category Segregation and Client Transparency, PE Firm Sub-Professional Bid Ethics Code Persistence
defeasibleUnder
Sub-Professional Services Competitive Bidding Permissibility
Source Evidence
Source text
the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price.
Text references
This principle is not applicable to sub-professional or nonprofessional services, and this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified.
the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price.
TTL
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case90:PE_Firm_Sub-Professional_Bid_Competitive_Bidding_Rationale-Scope_Permissibility a proeth:Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBiddingRationale-ScopePermissibilityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "PE Firm Sub-Professional Bid Competitive Bidding Rationale-Scope Permissibility" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case90:PE_Firm_Mixed-Practice_Work_Category_Segregation_and_Client_Transparency,
case90:PE_Firm_Sub-Professional_Bid_Ethics_Code_Persistence ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case90:Sub-Professional_Services_Competitive_Bidding_Permissibility ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case90:PE_Firm_Ethics_Code_Scope_Non-Application_to_Sub-Professional_Bid ;
proeth:casecontext "The PE firm has been invited to submit a written competitive bid for work that is solely sub-professional in character; the ethics body must determine whether competitive bidding is permissible." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "met" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.91" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case90:Competitive_Bidding_Permissibility_for_Sub-Professional_Services_Based_on_Rationale_Scope ;
proeth:discoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:14:04.571072+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:14:04.571072+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "PE-Principal Engineering Firm and ethics adjudicatory body" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Sub-Professional Competitive Bidding Rationale-Scope Permissibility Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The PE firm and the ethics body are obligated to recognize that competitive bidding for the sub-professional services is ethically permissible because the quality-protection rationale underlying the prohibition on competitive bidding for professional services does not apply to sub-professional work that can be clearly and accurately specified." ;
proeth:sourcetext "the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of submitting the competitive bid and at the time of ethics adjudication" ;
proeth:textreferences "This principle is not applicable to sub-professional or nonprofessional services, and this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified.",
"the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 90 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:20:56.418051"^^xsd:dateTime ;
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Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
90
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:14:04.571072+00:00
First case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:14:04.571072+00:00
Attributed to
Case 90 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:20:56.418051
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction