PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle

Class bf9896a2
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PEIdentityNon-ExploitationinSub-ProfessionalCommercialCompetitionPrinciple
Definition

Relational principle requiring that when a professional engineering firm participates in competitive bidding for sub-professional work, it must not exploit its PE credentials, professional reputation, or engineering licensure status to gain an unfair advantage over non-PE commercial competitors who are equally or better qualified to perform the sub-professional work, while still being obligated to disclose its professional character honestly when asked or when material

Properties
Subclass of
RelationalPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RelationalPrinciple
Definition
Relational principle requiring that when a professional engineering firm participates in competitive bidding for sub-professional work, it must not exploit its PE credentials, professional reputation, or engineering licensure status to gain an unfair advantage over non-PE commercial competitors who are equally or better qualified to perform the sub-professional work, while still being obligated to disclose its professional character honestly when asked or when material
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.
TTL
@prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> . @prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> . @prefix owl: <http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#> . @prefix proethica_intermediate_extended: <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate-extended> . <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PEIdentityNon-ExploitationinSub-ProfessionalCommercialCompetitionPrinciple> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "PE Identity Non-Exploitation in Sub-Professional Commercial Competition Principle" ; rdfs:comment "Relational principle requiring that when a professional engineering firm participates in competitive bidding for sub-professional work, it must not exploit its PE credentials, professional reputation, or engineering licensure status to gain an unfair advantage over non-PE commercial competitors who are equally or better qualified to perform the sub-professional work, while still being obligated to disclose its professional character honestly when asked or when material" ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#RelationalPrinciple> .
Metadata
Type
Class
Content Hash
bf9896a27d5b34d4...
Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
90
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00
First Discovered In Case
90
Generated
2026-03-02T16:06:53.623243+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 90 Extraction