Sub-Professional Services Competitive Bidding Permissibility
S · State
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/90#Sub-Professional_Services_Competitive_Bidding_Permissibility
Properties
Instance of
Sub-ProfessionalWorkCompetitiveBidEligibilityState
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalWorkCompetitiveBidEligibilityState
Active period
Active throughout the case analysis; confirmed as permissible in the Discussion section
Affected parties
Clients procuring sub-professional services
Competing firms
Engineering firm
Confidence
0.92
Importance
high
Subject
Sub-professional and non-professional services offered by engineering firm subject to competitive price-based bidding
Terminated by
Not terminated; persists as a standing rule for sub-professional work
Triggering event
Determination that sub-professional services can be clearly and accurately specified, removing the quality-sacrifice rationale for anti-competitive-bidding rules
Urgency level
low
Source Evidence
Source text
this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified
Text references
the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price. This principle is not applicable to sub-professional or nonprofessional services
this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified
TTL
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case90:Sub-Professional_Services_Competitive_Bidding_Permissibility a proeth:Sub-ProfessionalWorkCompetitiveBidEligibilityState,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Sub-Professional Services Competitive Bidding Permissibility" ;
proeth:activeperiod "Active throughout the case analysis; confirmed as permissible in the Discussion section" ;
proeth:affectedparties "Clients procuring sub-professional services",
"Competing firms",
"Engineering firm" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "State" ;
proeth:confidence "0.92" ;
proeth:discoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "1" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T16:04:54.872647+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "90" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T16:04:54.872647+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:sourcetext "this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified" ;
proeth:stateclass "Sub-Professional Work Competitive Bid Eligibility State" ;
proeth:subject "Sub-professional and non-professional services offered by engineering firm subject to competitive price-based bidding" ;
proeth:terminatedby "Not terminated; persists as a standing rule for sub-professional work" ;
proeth:textreferences "the prohibition against competitive bidding for professional services is based on protection of the public through avoidance of the sacrifice of quality to the lowest price. This principle is not applicable to sub-professional or nonprofessional services",
"this difference permits competitive bidding for sub-professional or nonprofessional (business or commercial) services, which may be clearly and accurately specified" ;
proeth:triggeringevent "Determination that sub-professional services can be clearly and accurately specified, removing the quality-sacrifice rationale for anti-competitive-bidding rules" ;
proeth:urgencylevel "low" ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 90 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T16:20:56.408732"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 90 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
90
Discovered in pass
1
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T16:04:54.872647+00:00
First case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:04:54.872647+00:00
Attributed to
Case 90 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T16:20:56.408732
Generated by
ProEthica Case 90 Extraction