Sub-Professional Bid Honest Representation Obligation
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e4e97727
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalBidHonestRepresentationObligation
Definition
Duty of a professional engineering firm submitting a competitive bid for sub-professional services to ensure that all representations in the bid — including descriptions of the firm's capabilities, experience, personnel, pricing, and capacity to perform the sub-professional work — are truthful, accurate, and non-deceptive, consistent with the firm's ongoing ethical obligations as a PE firm, and that no misrepresentation is made about the nature of the work, the firm's qualifications for it, or the competitive context.
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Definition
Duty of a professional engineering firm submitting a competitive bid for sub-professional services to ensure that all representations in the bid — including descriptions of the firm's capabilities, experience, personnel, pricing, and capacity to perform the sub-professional work — are truthful, accurate, and non-deceptive, consistent with the firm's ongoing ethical obligations as a PE firm, and that no misrepresentation is made about the nature of the work, the firm's qualifications for it, or the competitive context.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] Duty of a licensed professional engineer and engineering firm to ensure that all advertising, marketing, and self-promotional communications — including business cards, brochures, and websites — are conducted in a manner that is truthful, not misleading, and not deceptive, satisfying both the letter and the spirit of the NSPE Code of Ethics, and consistent with upholding the dignity and integrity of the profession. This obligation applies regardless of the medium or context of the communication and is not extinguished by antitrust or commercial speech considerations, which merely constrain the scope of the ethics code rather than eliminating the truthfulness requirement.
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.
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Ontology
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Class
Content Hash
e4e977272ed41098...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
90
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00
First Discovered In Case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:08:16.472263+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 90 Extraction