Dependency profile
- Dependency owner
- Competent purchasing authorities and plural suppliers
- Affected population
- Public institutions, suppliers, workers and service users
- Substitutability
- CONSTRAINED
- Switching cost
- HIGH
- Replacement time
- Scenario-specific; must be measured and tested, not assumed.
- Concentration level
- HIGH
- Non-Domination Test
- PASS_REQUIREMENTS_DEFINED
Abuse and failure paths
Abuse: Opaque weighting, self-dealing, exclusionary standards, dependency engineering and unappealable vendor lockout.
Failure: Faulty model, supplier collapse, bid-data compromise or systemic concentration.
Required exit and alternatives
Exit: Published criteria, conflict disclosure, protest rights, modular contracts, rebid and multiple awards.
Portability: Exportable solicitations, bids, evaluation reasons, contracts and performance history subject to law.
Interoperability: Open procurement data and contract interfaces.
Independent alternative: Qualified alternate suppliers and retained in-house competence.
Emergency handback: Pause new awards, preserve essential deliveries and transfer decisions to lawful review.
Disconfirming evidence
- Failed exit drill
- Unavailable independent alternative
- Retaliation for attempted exit
- Material portability gap
- Undisclosed common-mode dependency
Truth boundary
Static risk-governance record. It does not prove an operational service, market share, capacity, dependency, alternative, or successful exit drill.
Authority and record status
Responsible authority: Procurement and audit authorities.
Static concentration-governance record; no operational alternative or exit drill is proven.
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