# What should the final purchasing recommendation contain?


Produce a short memo that answers these questions:

1. **What decision did we test?** State the role, market, competitions, seasons and deadline.
2. **What could the incumbent stack already do?** Include the documented baseline.
3. **What did the candidate add?** Identify new evidence, interpretation, speed or capacity separately.
4. **What failed or remains unknown?** Preserve exceptions and untested requirements.
5. **Can we use it as intended?** Record rights, data handling and integration approvals.
6. **What will it cost?** Show comparable cash costs and internal effort separately.
7. **What is the recommendation?** Retain, add, replace, consolidate, build internally or buy nothing.
8. **Who owns implementation and review?** Include transition dependencies and a review date.

**The aim is not to justify another contract. It is to establish whether a particular supplier adds enough verified, usable value to justify its cost and operational burden for this club.**

This quiz is procurement research, not legal advice, a roster-eligibility determination or a prediction of recruitment success.