PE Firm Sub-Professional Bid Permissibility Recognition
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#PE_Firm_Sub-Professional_Bid_Permissibility_Recognition
Properties
Instance of
Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidSubmissionPermissibilityObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidSubmissionPermissibilityObligation
Case context
PE firm invited to submit written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services related to professional engineering
Compliance status
unclear
Confidence
0.88
Importance
high
Obligated party
PE firm (all principals are licensed professional engineers)
Obligation statement
The PE firm is obligated to recognize that it is ethically permitted to submit the written competitive bid for the sub-professional work, and must not decline on the false ground that competitive bidding is ethically prohibited, since antitrust rulings have removed such restrictions from the ethics code.
Temporal scope
Upon receipt of invitation to bid for sub-professional services
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Free Competition Framework Governing Sub-Professional Bid
Source Evidence
Source text
The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services.
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, although related to professional engineering services.
The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services.
TTL
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case90:PE_Firm_Sub-Professional_Bid_Permissibility_Recognition a proeth:Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidSubmissionPermissibilityObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "PE Firm Sub-Professional Bid Permissibility Recognition" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case90:Free_Competition_Framework_Governing_Sub-Professional_Bid ;
proeth:casecontext "PE firm invited to submit written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services related to professional engineering" ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unclear" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.88" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case90:Sub-Professional_Bidding_Permissibility_for_PE_Firm,
case90:Sub-Professional_Competitive_Bidding_Permissibility_for_All-PE-Principal_Firm ;
proeth:discoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "facts" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "PE firm (all principals are licensed professional engineers)" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Sub-Professional Competitive Bid Submission Permissibility Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "The PE firm is obligated to recognize that it is ethically permitted to submit the written competitive bid for the sub-professional work, and must not decline on the false ground that competitive bidding is ethically prohibited, since antitrust rulings have removed such restrictions from the ethics code." ;
proeth:sourcetext "The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Upon receipt of invitation to bid for sub-professional services" ;
proeth:textreferences "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, although related to professional engineering services.",
"The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 90 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:20:56.410959"^^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
2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00
First case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00
Attributed to
Case 90 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:20:56.410959
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction