Government
What belongs in a public-sector RFP for a blockchain or agent system?
Specify the obligations the system must satisfy, not the technology you expect it to use.
The answer
Four requirements do more work than any technical specification: name which data may never reach a shared system, require decision evidence reconstructable years later rather than logs retained for months, ask for the exit plan and the export format before the award, and separate the platform vendor from the party accountable for the authority boundary inside your systems. An RFP that specifies a technology instead of these has chosen an answer before stating the question.
Why specifying the technology backfires
An RFP that names a ledger has already decided the hardest question — whether one is needed — and removed the vendor’s ability to tell you it is not. The strongest public-sector engagements this practice has been part of started from a mandate and a constraint, not from a technology, and more than one ended with a written recommendation against the ledger.
The exit question, asked at the right time
The register or record a public system produces will outlive the contract that produced it. Ask before the award: in what format does the data leave, under what trigger events, and who operates the system during the transition. A vendor exit plan that names none of those is a dependency wearing a contract’s clothes.
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