{
  "acceptanceEvidence": [
    "organizational independence",
    "repeatable methods",
    "signed findings",
    "disagreement preservation"
  ],
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    {
      "acceptanceState": "PASS, FAIL, PARTIAL, UNAVAILABLE, or NOT APPLICABLE with rationale",
      "assessmentMethod": "organizational review",
      "criterion": "Independence",
      "requiredResult": "Verifier has no delivery-team decision conflict"
    },
    {
      "acceptanceState": "PASS, FAIL, PARTIAL, UNAVAILABLE, or NOT APPLICABLE with rationale",
      "assessmentMethod": "technical replay",
      "criterion": "Replay",
      "requiredResult": "Selected claims and evidence can be independently reproduced"
    },
    {
      "acceptanceState": "PASS, FAIL, PARTIAL, UNAVAILABLE, or NOT APPLICABLE with rationale",
      "assessmentMethod": "record audit",
      "criterion": "Disagreement preservation",
      "requiredResult": "Unresolved disputes remain in final record"
    }
  ],
  "bidEvaluationCriteria": [
    "independence",
    "replay capability",
    "high-consequence domain expertise",
    "willingness to issue adverse findings",
    "price realism and schedule credibility",
    "data-rights and evidence-delivery terms",
    "subcontractor and supply-chain transparency"
  ],
  "canonicalUrl": "https://xn--mwe.com/procurement/work-packages/independent-verification/",
  "dataRequirements": [
    "complete evidence package",
    "approved range access",
    "acceptance criteria",
    "source and mapping records",
    "organizational independence disclosures"
  ],
  "deliverables": [
    "independent findings",
    "replay results",
    "mapping disputes",
    "residual-risk statement",
    "verification decision"
  ],
  "dependencies": [
    "WP-K06-08"
  ],
  "evidenceRights": [
    "The acquiring authority receives perpetual access to final reports, schemas, manifests, acceptance evidence, defects, and correction history within the negotiated data-rights regime.",
    "Contractor proprietary methods may remain protected only when they do not prevent independent replay of required results.",
    "Source artifacts, hashes, versions, tool outputs, and negative findings required for acceptance cannot be withheld merely because they are unfavorable.",
    "No clause transfers authority, licensing status, or ownership beyond the signed contract and governing law."
  ],
  "exclusions": [
    "no self-verification represented as independent",
    "no regulator impersonation"
  ],
  "id": "WP-K06-09",
  "inputs": [
    "evidence package",
    "access to approved range",
    "source records",
    "decision criteria"
  ],
  "k07Id": "WP-K07-09",
  "name": "Independent verification",
  "negativeResultClauses": [
    "A failed, partial, stale, disputed, unavailable, or superseded result must be delivered and may not be converted into a pass.",
    "Discovery of a safety, authority, evidence, or common-cause defect triggers prompt notice and preserves stop authority.",
    "Acceptance of one deliverable does not waive latent defects, falsified evidence, or later-discovered nonconformance.",
    "The final package must distinguish work completed, work not performed, evidence unavailable, and owner decisions pending."
  ],
  "objective": "Challenge the assurance argument, replay evidence, test mappings, inspect defeaters, and record disagreements without inheriting the delivery team's conclusions.",
  "releaseId": "K12-2026-08-16",
  "slug": "independent-verification",
  "statementOfWork": {
    "contractorDeliverables": [
      "independent findings",
      "replay results",
      "mapping disputes",
      "residual-risk statement",
      "verification decision"
    ],
    "dependencies": [
      "WP-K06-08"
    ],
    "exclusions": [
      "no self-verification represented as independent",
      "no regulator impersonation"
    ],
    "governmentOrOwnerFurnishedInformation": [
      "complete evidence package",
      "approved range access",
      "acceptance criteria",
      "source and mapping records",
      "organizational independence disclosures"
    ],
    "performanceOutcomes": [
      "independent replay results",
      "mapping and evidence disputes",
      "residual-risk statement",
      "signed verification decision with limitations"
    ],
    "performanceStandards": [
      "Verifier has no delivery-team decision conflict",
      "Selected claims and evidence can be independently reproduced",
      "Unresolved disputes remain in final record"
    ],
    "periodOfPerformance": "To be defined by the acquiring authority; no duration is inferred by the public pattern.",
    "purpose": "Challenge the assurance argument, replay evidence, test mappings, inspect defeaters, and record disagreements without inheriting the delivery team's conclusions.",
    "qualitySurveillance": [
      "organizational review",
      "technical replay",
      "record audit"
    ]
  }
}