Sub-Professional Competitive Bid Submission Permissibility Obligation
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a2d87799
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalCompetitiveBidSubmissionPermissibilityObligation
Definition
Duty of a professional engineering firm whose principals are all licensed PEs to recognize that it is ethically permitted to submit a written competitive bid for work that is sub-professional in character but related to professional engineering services, because antitrust rulings have removed ethics code restrictions on competitive bidding, and the work falls within the legitimate commercial activities of such a firm; the firm must neither refuse the bid on false ethical grounds nor treat the invitation as ethically impermissible.
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Definition
Duty of a professional engineering firm whose principals are all licensed PEs to recognize that it is ethically permitted to submit a written competitive bid for work that is sub-professional in character but related to professional engineering services, because antitrust rulings have removed ethics code restrictions on competitive bidding, and the work falls within the legitimate commercial activities of such a firm; the firm must neither refuse the bid on false ethical grounds nor treat the invitation as ethically impermissible.
Scope Note
[proethica-intermediate-extended] Duty of a licensed professional engineer — and of professional engineering organizations such as NSPE — to recognize that antitrust and First Amendment rulings have removed or constrained ethics code provisions governing professional selection, compensation, competitive bidding, advertising, and related practices, and that this constraint does not diminish the force of applicable federal, state, and local procurement laws; accordingly, engineers must comply with those procurement laws as a matter of legal and ethical obligation even where the ethics code itself cannot directly prescribe conduct in those areas.
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
a2d87799ef73ae78...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