Glossary

• A, B, C — synthetic companies: A publishes an opportunity, B and C respond independently.
• EOI — expression of interest: a company’s approved, meaningful response to an opportunity.
• Opportunity version (V1, V2) — immutable published content; edits create a new version reviewed before going live.
• Outbox — table written in the same database transaction as a business change so notification events are not lost.
• Idempotency key — client key bound to actor, command, attempt and payload so retries do not duplicate records.
• Balanced / Optimized / Comprehensive — the three software options (Delivery-Options-Comparison).
• T01–T40 — core application scenarios. DG01–DG44 — DG service scenarios. A01–A11 — software acceptance gates (Acceptance-Gates-A01-A11). S01–S13 — DG service gates (DG-Services-Index). D01–D10 — proposal decisions (Proposal-Decisions-D01-D10). Q01–Q25 — pending decisions (Decision-Index).
• Manual — performed by DG staff under an approved procedure. Added scope — new software not in Balanced.