IAIC 101Tender cabinet
Step 1

Deployment

A deployment is this system, in this place, with these people near it. It holds one tier for the whole of the work, and it is the unit everything else hangs from — the item set, the record, the subscription.

New deployment

Why not the site, or the fleet. Two robots in one tower can sit at different tiers: the lobby delivery unit meets visitors, the plant-room crawler meets three trained technicians. One tier per deployment is what keeps the second from being priced like the first.
← Deployments
Step 2

Tier

Four statements about your own site, answered before bids open. Each tier is the one below it plus one further statement, and the deployment sits at the highest tier whose statement holds of it.

Z-1 — what the system is to do

in your own words, before the statements

Q0 asks what the system affects in performing these tasks. Until they are written there is nothing for the statements to be true of, and no tier — which is what Clause 4.1 says: the task sets the answers, so the tier waits for it as the assessment does.

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—items asked
—mandatory
A statement holds if it is true at any moment of the work, or can become true within the tasks declared under Z-1 — and a statement that cannot be ruled out holds. This is where an acquirer most often answers in its own favour.
The task sets the answers. One fleet in a shopping centre cleans the floors at night, with nobody but the cleaners in the building, and escorts customers between shops by day: same machines, same place, T0 and T3. Those are two deployments, not one with two tiers. A change to the declared tasks ends this work — the statements are answered again and what follows is a different deployment. So is any other change that alters who the system reaches, including a capability it did not have at acceptance and exercises afterwards, whether it was proposed or the system arrived at it itself.

Form 1 — the tier

generated from the answers above
Blank forms (free, iaic.world)
← Tier
Step 3

Tender list

Every item asked at this tier, with the letter that says what an unsatisfactory answer costs at this tier. The four columns show what the same item costs at each rung, so a bidder can see what changes if the site does.

TagThe question an assessment puts T0T1T2T3AnswersStage

What you have to supply before a supplier can answer

These items are the supplier’s to answer and cannot be answered until you have furnished something. Nobody finds this out until the tender stalls.

    Publish it as a tender →
    Step 4

    Responses

    Bidders answer their part; you see who has answered what, and what is waiting on you. Not built yet — here is what it will hold and why it is shaped this way.

    Waits for the first acquirer who asks for it

    How a bidder gets in

    The standard decides this, not convenience. X-1 is mandatory at all four tiers: where you buy through an agent or distributor, the manufacturer countersigns the answers on D1, D3, D5 and change control, or answers them directly. And Clause 20.1 makes every answer a representation incorporated into the contract. An answer with no identified person behind it is neither a signature nor a representation — so an anonymous link cannot carry one.

    1 · Read by linkAn invitation opens the item set. No registration to see what is being asked.
    2 · Answer under an identity scoped to this tenderEmail and password tied to this tender only — not an account in the platform.
    3 · A named person signsName, position, party, date.
    4 · Two parties where X-1 bitesThe manufacturer's countersignature is a separate, unfilled slot until it arrives.
    Step 5

    Comparison

    One item, every bidder, and the standard’s own yardstick above them. Not built yet.

    Waits for the first paying acquirer

    What it will do

    • Every bidder’s answer to one item, side by side, with that item’s acceptable and failing limbs printed above them as the yardstick.
    • Filter to the items where the bidders differ — the only rows a procurement committee needs to read.
    • Mark each answer accepted or rejected, in your name, with your reason.
    No score, and no ranking. The cabinet lays the answers side by side and computes what the standard computes. Which bid wins is your judgement, signed by you. A service that scored bidders and issued a conformity conclusion would be a certification body, and would put you in breach of A-4.
    Step 6

    Record

    What was asked, what was answered, when, by whom, and what you accepted or rejected. Not built yet.

    Waits for the first paying acquirer

    What it will hold

    • The whole trail, with answers versioned and never overwritten — a correction is a new version, because Clause 20.1 makes an answer a representation in a contract and one that can be silently edited is not one.
    • The ceilings under C6, computed rather than typed: the tier below the lowest tier at which the item is mandatory, unless the item states its own — and seventeen of them do.
    • Export of the whole record, at any moment, in a form you can take away.
    • Run again against today’s configuration. Clause 1.3 says how far this standard reaches in time: 131 items are answered at bid and 32 at acceptance, none in service. The remedy it names is the standard applied again — the four statements answered afresh, the items put again against the configuration now in service. Here that is one button and a copy of the deployment with a new date.