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Award objection: upheld live objections · case 01

Withdrawn or unfiled objections can drive the award remedy.

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ROOT CAUSE

Withdrawn or unfiled objections can drive the award remedy.

THE FAILURE

Withdrawn or unfiled objections can drive the award remedy.

Unsuccessful approach: The attempted repair uses [o for o in x["upheld"] if o in x["resolved"]]; the explicit regression cases demonstrate that this still violates the stipulated auction rule.

Case contract

A provisional award challenge has bidder standing, grounds, evidence receipt, hearing outcomes and a limited remedy. Filing preserves the award but blocks finality until all admissible objections are resolved. Dates are ticks and list entries retain filing order. Named decision upheld-live-objections: For upheld live objections, apply the stipulated decision [o for o in x["upheld"] if o in x["objections"] and o not in x["withdrawn"]].

Why this case matters

Offline administrative auction model for software failure analysis.

1 / The failure

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    v0 = x["challenger"] in x["participants"] and x["challenger"]!=x["winner"]
    v1 = [g for g in x["grounds"] if g in x["permitted"]]
    v2 = x["filed"]<=x["deadline"]
    v3 = set(x["evidence"])<=set(x["received"])
    v4 = not (set(x["objections"])-set(x["resolved"])-set(x["withdrawn"]))
    v5 = [i for i in x["awarded"] if i not in x["affected"]] if x["upheld"] else x["awarded"]
    v6 = [o for o in x["objections"] if o not in x["withdrawn"]]
    v7 = 0 if x["frivolous"] else x["deposit"]
    v8 = sorted(set(x["participants"])-set(x["notified"]))
    v9 = x["upheld"]
    return {'challenger-standing':v0,'admissible-grounds':v1,'filing-deadline':v2,'evidence-completeness':v3,'open-objection-finality':v4,'remedy-lot-scope':v5,'withdrawn-hearing-removal':v6,'objection-deposit-disposition':v7,'hearing-notice-parties':v8,'upheld-live-objections':v9}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
fixtures = [('all withdrawn', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1', 'o2'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []]), ('ground order / all withdrawn', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['procedure', 'eligibility'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1', 'o2'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []]), ('normal contract', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('ground order', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['procedure', 'eligibility'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('nonparticipant', {'challenger': 'c', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('winner challenges own award', {'challenger': 'a', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('deadline filing', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 6, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('late filing', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 7, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('all evidence received', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1', 'e2'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('all objections resolved', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1', 'o2'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('none upheld', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': [], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []])]
def vary(value):
 if type(value) is int: return value*N
 if isinstance(value,list): return [vary(v) for v in value]
 if isinstance(value,dict): return {k:(v if k in ['count', 'delivery_index', 'disputed', 'maximum_set', 'minimum_set', 'stage', 'threshold', 'waived'] else vary(v)) for k,v in value.items()}
 return value
for label, request, expected in fixtures:
 check(label, solve(vary(request))['upheld-live-objections'], expected[N-1])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
all withdrawn['o2'][]Failed
ground order / all withdrawn['o2'][]Failed
normal contract['o2']['o2']Passed
ground order['o2']['o2']Passed
nonparticipant['o2']['o2']Passed
winner challenges own award['o2']['o2']Passed
deadline filing['o2']['o2']Passed
late filing['o2']['o2']Passed
all evidence received['o2']['o2']Passed
all objections resolved['o2']['o2']Passed
none upheld[][]Passed

SHA-256 / 2ab3b7ff443638319cd27da7fd5960a3c0049be2d2dbd55d5220212a11761114

2 / The unsuccessful fix

Exit 1
"""Failure Map reference implementation. Python standard library only."""
import json

N = 1
observations = []
def solve(x):
    v0 = x["challenger"] in x["participants"] and x["challenger"]!=x["winner"]
    v1 = [g for g in x["grounds"] if g in x["permitted"]]
    v2 = x["filed"]<=x["deadline"]
    v3 = set(x["evidence"])<=set(x["received"])
    v4 = not (set(x["objections"])-set(x["resolved"])-set(x["withdrawn"]))
    v5 = [i for i in x["awarded"] if i not in x["affected"]] if x["upheld"] else x["awarded"]
    v6 = [o for o in x["objections"] if o not in x["withdrawn"]]
    v7 = 0 if x["frivolous"] else x["deposit"]
    v8 = sorted(set(x["participants"])-set(x["notified"]))
    v9 = [o for o in x["upheld"] if o in x["resolved"]]
    return {'challenger-standing':v0,'admissible-grounds':v1,'filing-deadline':v2,'evidence-completeness':v3,'open-objection-finality':v4,'remedy-lot-scope':v5,'withdrawn-hearing-removal':v6,'objection-deposit-disposition':v7,'hearing-notice-parties':v8,'upheld-live-objections':v9}
def check(label, actual, expected):
    observations.append({"check": label, "actual": actual, "expected": expected, "passed": actual == expected})
fixtures = [('all withdrawn', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1', 'o2'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []]), ('ground order / all withdrawn', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['procedure', 'eligibility'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1', 'o2'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []]), ('normal contract', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('ground order', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['procedure', 'eligibility'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('nonparticipant', {'challenger': 'c', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('winner challenges own award', {'challenger': 'a', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('deadline filing', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 6, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('late filing', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 7, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('all evidence received', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1', 'e2'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('all objections resolved', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1', 'o2'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': ['o2'], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2'], ['o2']]), ('none upheld', {'challenger': 'b', 'participants': ['a', 'b'], 'winner': 'a', 'grounds': ['eligibility', 'price'], 'permitted': ['eligibility', 'procedure'], 'filed': 5, 'deadline': 6, 'evidence': ['e1', 'e2'], 'received': ['e1'], 'resolved': ['o1'], 'objections': ['o1', 'o2'], 'upheld': [], 'affected': ['L2'], 'awarded': ['L1', 'L2'], 'withdrawn': ['o1'], 'deposit': 4, 'frivolous': False, 'notified': ['a']}, [[], [], [], [], []])]
def vary(value):
 if type(value) is int: return value*N
 if isinstance(value,list): return [vary(v) for v in value]
 if isinstance(value,dict): return {k:(v if k in ['count', 'delivery_index', 'disputed', 'maximum_set', 'minimum_set', 'stage', 'threshold', 'waived'] else vary(v)) for k,v in value.items()}
 return value
for label, request, expected in fixtures:
 check(label, solve(vary(request))['upheld-live-objections'], expected[N-1])
print(json.dumps({"observations": observations, "passed": all(x["passed"] for x in observations)}, ensure_ascii=False))
raise SystemExit(0 if all(x["passed"] for x in observations) else 1)
Boundary fixtureActualExpectedOutcome
all withdrawn[][]Passed
ground order / all withdrawn[][]Passed
normal contract[]['o2']Failed
ground order[]['o2']Failed
nonparticipant[]['o2']Failed
winner challenges own award[]['o2']Failed
deadline filing[]['o2']Failed
late filing[]['o2']Failed
all evidence received[]['o2']Failed
all objections resolved['o2']['o2']Passed
none upheld[][]Passed

SHA-256 / 7ad867d278739bc31f216c92a8cb29a35b791078b49b83b854ce682ddbb98354

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Verification & scope

Stipulated toy auction rules, not a venue specification, financial advice, optimization claim, or live trading implementation. Nonnegative integer inputs and internally aligned list fields only. This reproducer isolates one failure mechanism. Results cover the supplied fixtures. Variants within a family share a test contract and should remain grouped when constructing evaluation splits. Related mechanisms with a shared evaluation_group must also remain together; these controlled models are not independent production incidents.

Observations recorded using Python 3.12.14 at 2026-09-29T14:46:12.351971+00:00.

Case digest / 6d1a692f5c29dd749df6b0144cb6dbc2ec2688864b1de22b4121462ed23556d8