Cell 3cii · GWG Proposal
Measure Performance and Replace Failure
GREEN WHITE GO MANIFESTO — 2026.10.01 · CANONICAL THREE-SENTENCE UNIT
Any provider delivering a delegated public service must be measurable, and a provider that fails may be corrected or replaced under law without ending the citizen’s underlying entitlement.
Records needed for continuity must remain portable to the lawful successor or replacement provider, while government retains enough continuity capacity to keep the service or guarantee running; detailed metrics, scoring, remediation, replacement timetables and data-transfer procedures belong in the Service-Continuity Policy Paper and legislation.
The purpose is to make provider failure replaceable rather than allowing a failed contractor to become a failed public guarantee.
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The purpose is to make provider failure replaceable rather than allowing a failed contractor to become a failed public guarantee.
Evidence and limits
The delegation doctrine is a GWG choice. Claims about efficiency, savings or complete legal coverage require function-specific evidence; provider delegation does not remove public accountability.
The proposal remains distinct from current law and from evidence for individual components.
Evidence notes for this pillarRelated Hard Questions
No. It means separating public authority from delivery. Some acts must remain public because only the state may lawfully exercise them. Other work may be performed by accredited, contracted or competing providers where law permits and risk allows.
The governing questions are:
What is the legally operative act? Who is allowed to make that decision? Who remains accountable? Who hears the appeal?
Who replaces failure?
Green White Go therefore distinguishes:
- non-delegable sovereign decisions;
- delegable execution;
- statutory accredited certification;
- ordinary market procurement.
The state keeps the sovereign decision, rule-setting, public review and continuity responsibility. Provider competition is allowed only where those boundaries make it safe.
Delegate the transaction. Never delegate accountability.
Government must retain continuity capacity, correction and replacement powers. Records and lawful public files must remain portable; provider failure cannot extinguish the citizen’s entitlement or require starting again from scratch. This does not require a permanent duplicate public provider beside every delegated service.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL
Sector-specific continuity, replacement and operational arrangements still need implementation design.