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+# Corpus
+
+Source documents for the synthesized response corpus (#30). Archived 2026-08-03
+because #22 read them from live URLs and kept nothing — and its ninth hazard was
+that live procurement PDFs 403 or return bot-challenge HTML without warning.
+
+All seven retrieved successfully; none of the 403s #22 hit recurred.
+
+## Authoring anchors — solicitations we can write responses to
+
+| Path | Pages | Why |
+|---|---|---|
+| `friendship-pcs/rfp.pdf` | 52 | Grocery, nested rubric, closest to the retail domain. Its price sheet is a separate Excel attachment, which exercises #22's second extraction hazard. |
+| `slc-airport/rfp.pdf` | 142 | Richest binding structure — paragraph headings A–M restated verbatim. Has a shortlist-for-interviews stage that exercises the `finalist` release level. |
+
+## Validation artifact — not a solicitation
+
+`tarrant-county/rfp.pdf` (1pp) is an **award tabulation**, not an RFP. No
+requirements, so nothing can be written against it. What it holds is the only
+real published outcome in the set:
+
+```
+Evaluation Criteria           Max   Five Star  Selrico  Trinity
+Management & Support Staff     25     15.84     15.00    16.36
+Meal and Service Plan          25     15.20     16.30    17.30
+Financial Stability            20     12.00     12.00    12.00
+Meal Price                     25     25.00     24.52    22.23
+References                      5      3.77      3.07     2.73
+Total Score                  100      71.81     70.89    70.62
+                                     PRIMARY  SECONDARY ALTERNATE
+```
+
+Three vendors inside 1.19 points. This is what ranking arithmetic gets checked
+against — the only place in the corpus where our maths can be wrong in a way
+that is detectable rather than self-consistent. It is also concrete evidence for
+storing fractional scores: rounding erases this result entirely.
+
+## Reference — rubric and pricing shapes, not authored against
+
+| Path | Pages | Why |
+|---|---|---|
+| `reference/salt-lake-county-scoring-criteria.pdf` | 3 | A second 0–5 scale with incompatible labels — the evidence that scales are per-document. |
+| `reference/nevada-asd-401-eval-worksheet.pdf` | 1 | The generic default rubric procurement offices reach for. |
+| `reference/maryland-dgs-mbe-forms.pdf` | 27 | Nested percentage compliance — a constraint program, not a field. |
+| `reference/arkansas-unit-price-bid-sheet.pdf` | 4 | Rate-function pricing: unit × frequency × quantity. |
+
+## Corrections to #22's record
+
+- SLC Airport is **142pp**, not 55pp.
+- Maryland MBE forms are **27pp**, not 20pp.
+- Tarrant County was described as a document with a score tabulation; it is
+  *only* a tabulation, which changes its role in the corpus.
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