Sub-Professional Service Competitive Bidding Permissibility Principle

Class ed3a842e
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#Sub-ProfessionalServiceCompetitiveBiddingPermissibilityPrinciple
Definition

Fundamental principle establishing that a professional engineering firm whose principals are all licensed engineers is ethically permitted to submit competitive bids for work that is sub-professional in character, provided the firm does not misrepresent its professional status or exploit its engineering credentials to gain an unfair competitive advantage over non-PE commercial competitors in the sub-professional marketplace

Properties
Subclass of
FundamentalEthicalPrinciple
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FundamentalEthicalPrinciple
Definition
Fundamental principle establishing that a professional engineering firm whose principals are all licensed engineers is ethically permitted to submit competitive bids for work that is sub-professional in character, provided the firm does not misrepresent its professional status or exploit its engineering credentials to gain an unfair competitive advantage over non-PE commercial competitors in the sub-professional marketplace
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#Sub-ProfessionalServiceCompetitiveBiddingPermissibilityPrinciple> a owl:Class ; rdfs:label "Sub-Professional Service Competitive Bidding Permissibility Principle" ; rdfs:comment "Fundamental principle establishing that a professional engineering firm whose principals are all licensed engineers is ethically permitted to submit competitive bids for work that is sub-professional in character, provided the firm does not misrepresent its professional status or exploit its engineering credentials to gain an unfair competitive advantage over non-PE commercial competitors in the sub-professional marketplace" ; rdfs:subClassOf <http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#FundamentalEthicalPrinciple> .
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Class
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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