{ "$comment": [ "Ground truth for corpus/friendship-pcs/rfp.pdf — what a correct extraction SHOULD produce.", "Hand-authored from the source document, not generated. Where this disagrees with an", "extractor, the extractor is wrong. See NOTES.md for how it was derived.", "", "Requirement ids are stable and are what response truth files answer against." ], "solicitation": { "title": "Request for Proposal for the Supply and Delivery of Food Items", "issuer": "Friendship Public Charter School", "issuerLocation": "Washington, DC", "issueDate": "2021-03-15", "closingDate": "2021-04-16", "pages": 52, "programContext": [ "NSLP", "SBP", "ASSP", "FFVP", "CACFP", "SFSP" ], "siteCount": 8 }, "bindingMechanism": { "level": "named_section", "$comment": [ "#22's coarse tier. B.7 mandates exactly four titled sections, which map to rubric", "CATEGORIES but not to their sub-criteria. The 15/10/5 split inside Method of Approach", "has no structural anchor in the response — all three are judged from one prose block.", "This is the single most important fact about scoring this document." ], "requiredSections": [ { "ordinal": 1, "title": "Executive Summary", "mapsToCriterion": null }, { "ordinal": 2, "title": "Pricing", "mapsToCriterion": "PRICING" }, { "ordinal": 3, "title": "Method of Approach and Implementation Plan", "mapsToCriterion": "METHOD" }, { "ordinal": 4, "title": "Bidder's Experience, Expertise and Reliability", "mapsToCriterion": "EXPERIENCE" } ] }, "ratingScale": { "$comment": "Per-document, never normalised (#10, #22). 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Under METHOD and EXPERIENCE the sub-items are", "WEIGHTED sub-criteria summing exactly to the parent (15+10+5=30, 5+5+5+5=20).", "Under ORG_CAPACITY and COMMUNITY the sub-bullets carry NO points and are guidance —", "they are requirements mapped to the criterion, not sub-criteria. Identical visual", "nesting, two different meanings, in one document." ], "weightedParents": [ "METHOD", "EXPERIENCE" ], "guidanceOnlyParents": [ "ORG_CAPACITY", "COMMUNITY" ] }, "scoringLevelIsAmbiguous": { "$comment": [ "The document does not say whether a committee scores at parent or leaf level. Because", "the binding mechanism is named-section (four sections), a response supplies ONE prose", "block for METHOD — which argues for scoring at parent level. But the leaves carry", "explicit weights, which argues for leaf level. Compare Tarrant County, which scores", "flat top-level criteria only. #10 needs a rule." ] } }, "requirements": [ { "id": "R-A1", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "A.1", "page": 4, "text": "Cover Page completed and signed.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-A2", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "A.2", "page": 5, "text": "Bidder Checklist completed.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-B2-LOCAL", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.2", "page": 5, "text": "Certification of percentage of local foods to be provided.", "criterionIds": [ "GEO_PREF" ], "knownMissId": "KM-2" }, { "id": "R-B6C", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.6(c)", "page": 5, "text": "Two bid copies submitted.", "criterionIds": [], "determinableFromResponseDocument": false, "$comment": "A physical submission fact, not a document-content fact. No extraction of any response can establish it, and no better parsing would help. Kept as a mandatory gate because the SFA does enforce it — but it must be satisfied out of band. The schema has no concept for this today; see the note raised on #10." }, { "id": "R-B6D", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.6(d)", "page": 5, "text": "A copy of a current state or local health certificate assuring that all regulations for the preparation of food and the facilities are being met.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_WAREHOUSE" ] }, { "id": "R-B8-QUEST", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.8", "page": 5, "text": "Distributor Pre-Qualification Questionnaire completed.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_KNOWLEDGE" ] }, { "id": "R-B8-LICENSE", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.8", "page": 5, "text": "Business license.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-B8-OCCUPANCY", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.8", "page": 5, "text": "Certificate of Occupancy.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-B8-FINANCIALS", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.8", "page": 5, "text": "Two years of audited financial statements.", "criterionIds": [ "ORG_CAPACITY" ] }, { "id": "R-C1-VALUES", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "C.1", "page": 5, "text": "Response to values statement.", "criterionIds": [ "COMMUNITY" ], "knownMissId": "KM-3" }, { "id": "R-C5-INSPECTIONS", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "C.5", "page": 5, "text": "Two most recent health inspections.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_WAREHOUSE" ] }, { "id": "R-D6-INSURANCE", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "D.6", "page": 5, "text": "Insurance amounts.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-SCHED-C", "kind": "pricing", "section": "Schedule C", "page": 41, "text": "Pricing Sheet — separate attachment to be completed in Excel.", "criterionIds": [ "PRICING" ], "knownMissId": "KM-1" }, { "id": "R-ATT-B", "kind": "certification_form", "section": "Attachment B", "page": 44, "text": "Certificate Regarding Debarment, Suspension, Ineligibility and Voluntary Exclusion.", "criterionIds": [], "externalFormSchema": true }, { "id": "R-ATT-C", "kind": "certification_form", "section": "Attachment C", "page": 46, "text": "Certificate of Independent Price Determination.", "criterionIds": [], "externalFormSchema": true }, { "id": "R-ATT-D", "kind": "certification_form", "section": "Attachment D", "page": 47, "text": "Permanent Certification Regarding Lobbying.", "criterionIds": [], "externalFormSchema": true }, { "id": "R-ATT-A", "kind": "compliance_schedule", "section": "Attachment A", "page": 42, "text": "Healthy Schools Act requirements compliance.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_KNOWLEDGE" ] }, { "id": "R-B7-FORMAT", "kind": "mandatory_gate", "section": "B.7", "page": 15, "text": "The submitted proposal must have four sections, titled: Executive Summary; Pricing; Method of Approach and Implementation Plan; Bidder's Experience, Expertise and Reliability.", "criterionIds": [] }, { "id": "R-C5-FOODSAFETY", "kind": "narrative", "section": "C.5", "page": 23, "text": "Warehouse and distribution food safety programme.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_WAREHOUSE", "FOOD_PACKAGING" ] }, { "id": "R-C6-PEST", "kind": "narrative", "section": "C.6", "page": 24, "text": "Stored products pest management programme.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_WAREHOUSE" ] }, { "id": "R-C7-QA", "kind": "narrative", "section": "C.7", "page": 24, "text": "Distributor's responsibility to provide quality assurance.", "criterionIds": [ "FOOD_PACKAGING" ] }, { "id": "R-C8-FARM2SCHOOL", "kind": "narrative", "section": "C.8", "page": 25, "text": "Farm to School participation.", "criterionIds": [ "GEO_PREF", "COMMUNITY" ] }, { "id": "R-C4-MENUS", "kind": "narrative", "section": "C.4", "page": 23, "text": "Use of advisory group and menus.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_SERVICE" ] }, { "id": "R-D1-DELIVERY", "kind": "narrative", "section": "D.1", "page": 26, "text": "Delivery requirements, including delivery windows per school site.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_DEPENDABILITY" ] }, { "id": "R-D3-RECORDS", "kind": "narrative", "section": "D.3", "page": 27, "text": "Record-keeping obligations.", "criterionIds": [ "EXP_KNOWLEDGE" ] }, { "id": "R-USDA-FOODS", "kind": "narrative", "section": "B.2/C.3", "page": 7, "text": "Utilization of USDA Foods in the product offering, including processing and diversion.", "criterionIds": [ "USDA_FOODS" ] }, { "id": "R-CN-LABELS", "kind": "narrative", "section": "B.7", "page": 15, "text": "How the Distributor will make nutritional information such as CN labels available to the SFA.", "criterionIds": [ "FOOD_PACKAGING", "EXP_KNOWLEDGE" ] }, { "id": "R-D8-EPA", "kind": "narrative", "section": "D.8", "page": 30, "text": "Economic price adjustment and price renegotiation terms.", "criterionIds": [ "PRICING" ] }, { "id": "R-B5-PRICING-TERMS", "kind": "narrative", "section": "B.5", "page": 12, "text": "Requirements regarding pricing, bidding and ordering. Prices from the awarded bidder shall remain in effect for the term of the contract.", "criterionIds": [ "PRICING" ] }, { "id": "R-E1-EEO", "kind": "certification_form", "section": "E.1", "page": 32, "text": "Equal Opportunity provisions.", "criterionIds": [], "externalFormSchema": true }, { "id": "R-E3-CLEANAIR", "kind": "certification_form", "section": "E.3", "page": 33, "text": "Clean Air and Water Certification.", "criterionIds": [], "externalFormSchema": true } ], "knownMisses": [ { "id": "KM-1", "requirementId": "R-SCHED-C", "type": "content_outside_document", "page": 41, "quotedText": "SCHEDULE C: PRICING SHEET *Separate attachment to be completed in Excel.", "whatIsMissed": "All pricing structure and every price line. The obligation is present; its content is not.", "whyNaiveExtractionFails": "The section exists and parses cleanly. Nothing signals that the substance is elsewhere — the extractor sees a heading and one sentence and reports success.", "stakes": "Pricing is 40 of 100 points. An extraction that reports 'complete' here has silently dropped the largest scored component of the solicitation.", "recoverableByBetterPdfParsing": false }, { "id": "KM-2", "requirementId": "R-B2-LOCAL", "type": "obligation_buried_in_scoring_prose", "page": 37, "quotedText": "Geographic preference – use locally grown or raised foods to maximum extent possible ( Bidder must submit certification of percentage of locally grown or raised foods to be supplied. SFA reserves the right to audit the actual percentage used once the bid is awarded) – 5 points", "whatIsMissed": "A MANDATORY submission stated only inside a parenthetical within a scored criterion's description.", "whyNaiveExtractionFails": "An extractor walking Section K is enumerating criteria and weights, not obligations. The word 'must' sits inside a parenthesis in a scoring bullet. It appears on the Bidder Checklist as 'B.2' with no cross-reference to Section K, so neither location alone reveals that this is a gate.", "stakes": "Missing it means a vendor is not told they will fail a checklist item, and the retailer's gate evaluation is incomplete.", "recoverableByBetterPdfParsing": false, "exercisesSweepBehaviour": "asserted_obligation — the second pass should assert an obligation in this span that no requirement covers" }, { "id": "KM-3", "requirementId": "R-C1-VALUES", "type": "miskinded_as_informational", "page": 5, "quotedText": "C.1: Response to values statement", "whatIsMissed": "Kind, not existence. 'Response to values statement' reads as narrative or informational; it is on the Bidder Checklist and is therefore a mandatory gate.", "whyNaiveExtractionFails": "The text carries no obligation verb — no 'shall', no 'must'. Its mandatory status derives entirely from appearing on a checklist eleven pages earlier.", "stakes": "Under #15's routing, a miskind sends this to a model for judgement instead of to code for a pass/fail check. Under #16 it would be bulk-accepted as informational and never individually confirmed.", "recoverableByBetterPdfParsing": false, "exercisesSweepBehaviour": "the sweep's second job — running over spans covered ONLY by informational requirements" } ], "expectedExtractionDifficulty": { "rubricHasNoCriteriaHeading": { "$comment": "The rubric lives under 'SECTION K: Evaluation Factors' → 'K.2 Technical Rating Scale'. Searching for 'evaluation criteria' or 'scoring' returns nothing. Weights are bullet suffixes ('– 40 points'), not a table.", "page": 37 }, "checklistIsTheGateSource": { "$comment": "Mandatory status for 17 items is established ONLY by the A.2 Bidder Checklist on page 5, using unicode ballot boxes. Each item is a terse cross-reference ('B.6(d)') whose obligation text lives elsewhere. Resolving gates requires joining the checklist to its targets.", "page": 5 }, "textLayerIsClean": { "$comment": "No page required OCR. This document does not exercise the OCR ladder — use SLC Airport for that." } }, "requirementNotes": { "gatesNotDeterminableFromResponse": [ "R-B6C" ], "$comment": "Surfaced by validate-responses.py rather than by design. A mandatory gate whose satisfaction is invisible to the response document is a real category: coverage over it is neither answered nor not_answered, it is unknowable from the artifact. Treating it as not_answered would disqualify two of three bidders for a packaging detail." } }