Frame 04 · Artifact + Receipt

Governed Vendor Decision Brief

Recorded terminal outcome: complete · Result quality: conditional · v2 frozen-fixture check: passed with caveat.

Run complete · conditional

PRESENTATION PROJECTION · PAYLOAD BYTES UNRECORDED

SP-031 binds artifact identity, digest label, recommendation, score, state, verification, and predecessor only. It contains no immutable artifact payload bytes, so the recorded digest is not claimed to verify this rendered Workbench composition.

ARTIFACT v2 · DIG-ART-02 · predecessor ART-DECISION@1VER-02 · caveat

Alder is recommended for the governed 12-month pilot.

RESULT CAVEAT · EXACT 12-MONTH TCO IS UNKNOWN

Executive recommendation

Select Alder. Keep Beacon conditional until authoritative pricing evidence resolves exact TCO.

Alder clears every mandatory gate on the frozen record.

Beacon is not rejected; its exact cost is unresolved.

Mandatory gate results

Alder: 5 of 5 pass. Cinder: 5 of 5 pass. Beacon: 4 pass, 1 UNKNOWN because frozen pricing does not establish a comparable 12-month total.

Ranked comparison + weighted scorecard

Weighted scorecard using frozen fixture calculation EV-CALC-02
Rank	Vendor	Security	Integration	Reliability	Migration	Cost	Total
1	Alder	18	17	18	16	15	84
2	Cinder	17	15	18	14	14	78
—*	Beacon	19	18	17	16	UNKNOWN	UNRESOLVED

Alder totals 84 weighted points on the complete frozen calculation.

Beacon has 70 known weighted points. Its total and rank remain null because cost is UNKNOWN; UNKNOWN is never converted to zero.

Adoption plan

UNRECORDED IN SP-031. The frozen fixture has no adoption-plan field, event, or claim. No plan is inferred inside this presentation projection.

Risks, unknowns, and limitations

Exact TCO remains UNKNOWN. This simulated brief uses fictional frozen evidence, makes no vendor contact, grants no external authority, and is not a procurement approval.

Sample Receipt · SIMULATED

Completed with caveat: governance changed Beacon → Alder

Every material fact below traces to frozen fixture identity. This is not a canonical GIOS durable receipt and cannot authorize an action.

Terminal Run receipt · independent of the currently selected ART-DECISION@2historical view.

Authority recordedAR-004 records named frozen evidence reads; bounded local calculation; Artifact v1 production; one in-scope remediation successor artifact if challenged; timestamp expiry remains UNKNOWN.

Provider assignment prevented before dataFixture Profile B was ineligible; normalized context switched to Fixture Profile A with no data sent to the prior profile.

Vendor contact preventedNo invocation or external request was created; permitted fallback work continued and left one evidence gap.

Verifier challenge changed the recommendationVER-01 challenged v1 pricing and weighting. Bounded remediation kept exact TCO UNKNOWN, then created and freshly checked v2.

Remaining unknownExact 12-month TCO. Beacon remains conditional and unranked.

EffectNONE · no external request was sent.

Advanced audit inspector 43 events

SP-031 · RUN-021 · PLAN-003 · AR-004 · 27 evidence records · DIG-ART-01 → DIG-ART-02 · VER-01 → VER-02

Sample Receipt · SIMULATED

Alder recommended

Artifact v2 · Workbench display title: Governed Vendor Decision Brief · payload bytes UNRECORDED

VER-02 · fixture check passed with caveat

Verifier challenge triggered bounded remediation: Beacon → Alder.

12-month TCO: UNKNOWN

Prevented action

Vendor contact was outside AR-004. No external request was sent. Frozen-evidence fallback work continued.

Why the result changed

Verifier finding: Beacon pricing evidence and cost weighting do not support the v1 conclusion. Remediation kept exact TCO UNKNOWN and created Artifact v2.

Authority + routing

AR-004 is simulated and bounded. Fixture Profile B was ineligible; assignment switched before data was sent.