Procurement Competition Honorable Conduct Constraint
Class
157ada51
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#ProcurementCompetitionHonorableConductConstraint
Definition
Ethical and regulatory constraint requiring that a licensed professional engineer competing for a public or private contract conduct all competitive activities honorably, responsibly, and fairly — prohibiting the use of informal client relationships, unsolicited critique of competitors, or exploitation of procurement-influencing authority contacts to gain competitive advantage through means other than demonstrated merit, qualifications, and legitimate competitive conduct, as established by NSPE Code Sections II.5, III.6, and III.7 and the principle that engineers shall not attempt to obtain employment or professional engagements by untruthfully criticizing other engineers or by improper or questionable methods.
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Definition
Ethical and regulatory constraint requiring that a licensed professional engineer competing for a public or private contract conduct all competitive activities honorably, responsibly, and fairly — prohibiting the use of informal client relationships, unsolicited critique of competitors, or exploitation of procurement-influencing authority contacts to gain competitive advantage through means other than demonstrated merit, qualifications, and legitimate competitive conduct, as established by NSPE Code Sections II.5, III.6, and III.7 and the principle that engineers shall not attempt to obtain employment or professional engagements by untruthfully criticizing other engineers or by improper or questionable methods.
Source Evidence
Source Text
Engineer C fully realizes that answering these questions in a certain perspective would be a pretext to gaining an advantage in the competition for the next 3-year contract.
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Ontology
Type
Class
Content Hash
157ada510b6bd4b3...Last Updated
2026-03-12 16:49
Extraction Provenance
Discovered in Case
20
Discovered In Pass
2
Discovered In Section
facts
First Discovered At
2026-02-25T16:25:47.320516+00:00
First Discovered In Case
20
Generated
2026-02-25T16:25:47.320516+00:00
Was Attributed To
Case 20 Extraction