Citing the standards in contracts and audits
How to write Ethotechnics standards into contracts, procurement language, and audits. This is guidance: it adds no requirements and is not legal advice.
Sample language
A starting clause
It binds four obligations: an answer to every objection, authority renewed only on evidence, a published time cost, and standing for the people a decision falls on and the staff who repair its errors. Adapt it with counsel to your jurisdiction.
Supplier will meet the following clauses of the Ethotechnics Institute standards, at the versions named, for the system described in Schedule A.
- STD-07 v0.1.3 §4.2: every objection accepted on the declared channel produces a revision or a reasoned refusal, on the record, within the stated reversal clock.
- STD-08 v0.3.1 §1.1 to §1.3: the system's grant of authority states in advance the evidence its renewal requires; a renewal that rests only on the absence of observed failure is not a renewal; and any widening of the grant's scope is a new authorization with its own evidence.
- STD-01 v1.0.2 §7.1: Supplier measures and publishes the time the system costs the people it decides about.
- STD-02 v1.4 §8.4: standing extends to the people a decision falls on and to the operators who handle its exceptions, work its queues, and do its manual repair. Each is owed receipt of a challenge, an answer within the same response deadline, and a decision against the published standard.
Supplier will provide the records each clause names on request. These standards are drafts; the versions above are fixed for the term of this agreement.
Records to request
The record behind each clause
The sample obliges the supplier to produce these on request. Each row names the record and where the standard lists its evidence.
| Clause | Record to request | Evidence listed in |
|---|---|---|
| STD-07 §4.2 | Every objection record accepted on the declared channel, paired with the revision or reasoned-refusal record that answered it. The time between the two should fall inside the reversal clock declared in contest.reversal_clock. | STD-07, Article IV |
| STD-08 §1.1 and §1.2 | For each renewal in the term: the grant's renewal_basis, dated before the review period began, and the renewal record naming what was examined, what would have been visible had the grant been failing, and who looked. | STD-08 evidence pack |
| STD-08 §1.3 | The grant's scope at issue and today. For every widening, the evidence_basis and correction-capacity check made for it, and its entry in the grant's state_history. | STD-08 evidence pack |
| STD-01 §7.1 | The published burden report and the time-cost log it was computed from. | STD-01 evidence pack |
| STD-02 §8.4 | The standing register entry for the decision class: who_may_challenge, naming both affected_party and corrective_labor, and the response_deadline. Then the case log of operators' challenges, with when each was answered. | STD-02 evidence pack |
Of these five, only STD-01 §7.1 has a scoring tool on this site. The Journey burden check scores one user journey red at over 25 minutes, more than 7 steps, or a screen with no exit. A contract can require a remediation plan for any journey that scores red. The other clauses have no score; the record is the evidence.
- STD-07 §4.2: sample objections. Each answer was recorded inside the reversal clock of the record it answers.
- STD-08 §1.1 and §1.2: sample renewals. Each renewal_basis predates its review period, and no renewal rests on the absence of failure alone.
- STD-08 §1.3: compare the grant's scope at issue with its scope today. Every widening has its own evidence and its own entry in state_history.
- STD-01 §7.1: recompute the published time cost from the time-cost log.
- STD-02 §8.4: find the staff who handle exceptions under who_may_challenge, and check their challenges were answered within the response_deadline.
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BibTeX
@misc{ethotechnics_standards_where_this_binds,
title={Citing the standards in contracts and audits},
author={Ethotechnics Institute},
year={2026},
howpublished={Ethotechnics Institute},
url={https://ethotechnics.org/standards/where-this-binds},
version={v1.2.0}
}
RIS
TY - WEB TI - Citing the standards in contracts and audits AU - Ethotechnics Institute PY - 2026 UR - https://ethotechnics.org/standards/where-this-binds ER -
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