When submitting fee bids for professional services a quantity surveyor must comply with the following RICS Bye-law:
RICS Bye-law 19; Regulation 15 (1995) relating to inducements for the introduction of clients states that 'No member shall:
Directly or indirectly exert undue pressure or influence on any person, whether by the offer or provision of any payment, gift or favour or otherwise, for the purpose of securing instructions for work.
quote a fee for professional services without having sufficient information to enable the member to assess the nature and scope of the services required;
having once quoted a fee for professional services revise that quotation to take account of the fee quoted by another member of the surveying profession for the same services;
quote a fee for professional services which is to be calculated by reference to the fee quoted or charged by another member of the surveying profession reduced by