Sub-Professional Bidding Permissibility for PE Firm
P · Principle
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Sub-Professional_Bidding_Permissibility_for_PE_Firm
Properties
Instance of
Sub-ProfessionalServiceCompetitiveBiddingPermissibilityPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalServiceCompetitiveBiddingPermissibilityPrinciple
Applied to
Written competitive bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services
Balancing with
PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle
Professional Ethics Obligation Persistence in Sub-Professional Practice Principle
Concrete expression
The PE firm is ethically permitted to submit the written competitive bid for the sub-professional work because: (a) the work is related to professional engineering services, (b) the firm has demonstrated capacity to perform such work on occasion, and (c) competitive bidding in this context is lawful and consistent with free market norms
Confidence
0.82
Importance
high
Interpretation
Permissibility is conditional on the firm's honest representation of its capabilities and its refraining from exploiting PE credentials to gain unfair advantage over non-PE commercial competitors
Invoked by
PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work
Tension resolution
The firm may bid; the ethical obligations that follow concern the manner of bidding and the accuracy of representations made in the 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
@prefix case90: <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#> .
@prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> .
@prefix proeth: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#> .
@prefix prov: <http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .
case90:Sub-Professional_Bidding_Permissibility_for_PE_Firm a proeth:Sub-ProfessionalServiceCompetitiveBiddingPermissibilityPrinciple,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Sub-Professional Bidding Permissibility for PE Firm" ;
proeth:appliedto "Written competitive bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services" ;
proeth:balancingwith "PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle",
"Professional Ethics Obligation Persistence in Sub-Professional Practice Principle" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Principle" ;
proeth:concreteexpression "The PE firm is ethically permitted to submit the written competitive bid for the sub-professional work because: (a) the work is related to professional engineering services, (b) the firm has demonstrated capacity to perform such work on occasion, and (c) competitive bidding in this context is lawful and consistent with free market norms" ;
proeth:confidence "0.82" ;
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 "Permissibility is conditional on the firm's honest representation of its capabilities and its refraining from exploiting PE credentials to gain unfair advantage over non-PE commercial competitors" ;
proeth:invokedby "PE-Principal Engineering Firm Bidding Sub-Professional Work" ;
proeth:principleclass "Sub-Professional Service Competitive Bidding Permissibility Principle" ;
proeth:sourcetext "The firm is invited to submit a written bid for work comprised solely of sub-professional services." ;
proeth:tensionresolution "The firm may bid; the ethical obligations that follow concern the manner of bidding and the accuracy of representations made in the bid" ;
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 "2026-03-02T16:20:56.410301"^^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
2026-03-02T16:20:56.410301
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction