R26:48.

The practice of engineering is a learned profession, requiring of its members sound technical training, broad experience, personal ability, honesty and integrity. The selection of engineering services by an evaluation of these qualities should be the basis of comparison rather than competitive bids.

[See Code 11(c). (Part 1) ]

Code is relevant when:

Engineer tries to obtain a project or engineering work

Code is violated when:

Engineer attempts to use a competitive bid to obtain the project or engineering work

Code is not violated when:

Engineer does not attempt to use a competitive bid to obtain the project or engineering work