Identity and scope
Contracts, notices, approved drawings, formal reports, or equivalent records should identify the work, location, parties, package boundary, and relevant dates.
Recognition framework
Evidence standard
Recognition claims must be specific, attributable, and testable. The evidence should show what was delivered or learned, the condition against which it is compared, the period or event covered, and the limitations on the conclusion.
Evidence follows the claim.
A contract award can establish appointment and scope; it cannot establish completed work. A completion certificate can establish acceptance; it may not establish sustained performance. An operating series can support performance only when its denominator, exclusions, and measurement responsibility are clear.
IMWO methodologyBaseline and constraints
Site condition, demand, hazard, asset state, technical requirement, or prior performance must be defined where improvement or difficulty is claimed.
Delivered configuration
As-built records, survey, test, acceptance, commissioning, or publication records should establish what actually existed at the assessment point.
Measured outcome
Production, availability, capacity, condition, environmental, safety, cost, programme, or service claims require a stated unit, period, denominator, and exclusions.
Contribution attribution
The record must distinguish client, designer, contractor, specialist, supplier, operator, researcher, and other contributions without extending credit beyond the evidence.
Independent support
Owner, authority, certifier, operator, regulator, client, or other independent records should corroborate material claims wherever they are available.
Treatment
Records are weighted by what they can establish.
Source authority does not remove the need to match the record to the claim or to disclose uncertainty.
- Primary project records
- Contracts, approvals, certified surveys, tests, acceptance, operating logs, audited data, and signed technical records.
- Independent public records
- Owner, authority, regulator, financier, standards body, or official procurement publications relevant to the claim.
- Participant records
- Designer, contractor, supplier, or operator material used with clear authorship and checked against independent evidence where possible.
- Secondary coverage
- Trade and media reporting used for context or corroboration, not as the sole basis for a technical or performance claim.
- Unverified assertion
- Promotional copy, social posts, undated claims, and unsupported superlatives receive no evidential credit.
Confidential material
Confidential evidence may support assessment when its provenance can be checked. The public citation must rely on publishable facts and state any material limitation.
Evidence gaps
Missing evidence is not replaced by inference. The affected claim is narrowed, receives no evidential credit, or is excluded before scoring; the gap is recorded for the jury.
Changes after entry
A submitter must disclose a material correction, dispute, incident, or reversal that changes the basis of a claim before publication of the result.
Public citation standard
A citation will identify the recognised contribution, the evidence date, the bounded outcome, and the principal sources available for publication. It will not convert project participation into certification, approval, or a claim about work outside the assessed scope.
See how evidence is scored