OVERVIEW OF THE LAW OF BIDDING AND TENDERING
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Contract A/Contract B analysis used by the Supreme Court of Canada in the seminal case of R. v. Ron Engineering was not the innovation that many commentators believe it to have been; collateral contracts have long been recognized by the courts. The law of bidding and tendering is no more than a set of presumptions, generally capable of being rebutted by careful drafting by the Owner in a Call for Tenders. The integrity of the bidding process can be protected in ways other than requiring a Bidder whose Bid price is too low due to a mistake to honour its price. The Owner’s duty of “fairness” in bidding and tendering should be more precisely defined as an implied term that an Owner will not base its decision on criteria which are neither expressly disclosed nor inferable from the Call for tenders.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it