Professional Ethics Obligation Persistence Through Sub-Professional Bid
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Professional_Ethics_Obligation_Persistence_Through_Sub-Professional_Bid
Properties
Instance of
ProfessionalEthicsObligationPersistenceinSub-ProfessionalPracticePrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProfessionalEthicsObligationPersistenceinSub-ProfessionalPracticePrinciple
Applied to
All representations made in the bid document
Written competitive bid for sub-professional services
Balancing with
Antitrust-Constrained Ethics Code Scope Principle
Free and Open Competition as Engineering Ethics Boundary Condition
Concrete expression
The PE firm's submission of a bid for sub-professional work does not suspend its ethical obligations under the engineering code of ethics; honesty, transparency, and non-deception obligations continue to govern the content and manner of the bid submission regardless of the sub-professional character of the work being bid upon
Confidence
0.83
Importance
high
Interpretation
The firm's principals remain bound by professional ethics in all their professional activities, including commercial bidding for sub-professional work; the sub-professional nature of the work does not create an ethics-free zone
Invoked by
PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work
Tension resolution
Antitrust law limits what the ethics code can prescribe about bidding practices, but it does not eliminate the engineer's character-based obligations of honesty and non-deception that persist independently of code provisions
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, although related to professional engineering 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:Professional_Ethics_Obligation_Persistence_Through_Sub-Professional_Bid a proeth:ProfessionalEthicsObligationPersistenceinSub-ProfessionalPracticePrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Professional Ethics Obligation Persistence Through Sub-Professional Bid" ;
proeth:appliedto "All representations made in the bid document",
"Written competitive bid for sub-professional services" ;
proeth:balancingwith "Antitrust-Constrained Ethics Code Scope Principle",
"Free and Open Competition as Engineering Ethics Boundary Condition" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The PE firm's submission of a bid for sub-professional work does not suspend its ethical obligations under the engineering code of ethics; honesty, transparency, and non-deception obligations continue to govern the content and manner of the bid submission regardless of the sub-professional character of the work being bid upon" ;
proeth:confidence "0.83" ;
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 "The firm's principals remain bound by professional ethics in all their professional activities, including commercial bidding for sub-professional work; the sub-professional nature of the work does not create an ethics-free zone" ;
proeth:invokedby "PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work" ;
proeth:principleclass "Professional Ethics Obligation Persistence in Sub-Professional Practice Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "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." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "Antitrust law limits what the ethics code can prescribe about bidding practices, but it does not eliminate the engineer's character-based obligations of honesty and non-deception that persist independently of code provisions" ;
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 "2026-03-02T16:20:56.404312"^^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
2026-03-02T16:20:56.404312
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction