Canon #1 - Professional estimators shall perform services in
areas of their discipline and competence.
Canon #2 - Professional estimators shall continue to expand
their professional capabilities through continuing education programs
to better enable them to serve clients, employers and the industry.
Canon #3 - Professional estimators shall conduct themselves
in a manner, which will promote cooperation and good relations among
members of our profession and those directly related to our
profession.
Canon #4 - Professional estimators shall safeguard and keep in
confidence all knowledge of the business affairs and technical
procedures of an employer or client.
Canon #5 - Professional estimators shall conduct themselves
with integrity as all times and not knowingly or willingly enter into
agreements that violate the laws of the United States of America or of
the states in which they practice. They shall establish guidelines for
setting forth prices and receiving quotations that are fair and
equitable to all parties.
Canon #6 - Professional estimators shall utilize their
education, years of experience and acquired skills in the preparation
of each estimate or assignment with full commitment to make each
estimate or assignment as detailed and accurate as their talents and
abilities allow.
Canon #7 - Professional estimators shall not engage in the
practice of "bid peddling" as defined by this code. This is
a breach of moral and ethical standards, and a member of this society
shall not enter into this practice.
Canon #8 - Professional estimators and those in training to
be estimators shall not enter into any agreement that may be
considered acts of collusion or conspiracy (bid rigging) with the
implied or express purpose of defrauding clients. Acts of this type
are in direct violation of the Code of Ethics of the American Society
of Professional Estimators.
Canon #9 - Professional estimators and those in training to
be estimators shall not participate in acts, such as the giving or
receiving of gifts, that are intended to be or may be construed as
being unlawful acts of bribery.