A logistics company is choosing between four warehouse management systems. The criteria are integration with existing barcode scanners, total five-year cost, energy consumption of the underlying infrastructure, and vendor support quality. Compatibility with the existing barcode hardware has been agreed as non-negotiable because replacing the scanners across forty warehouses is not feasible. One of the four candidates scores best on cost, energy, and support but is incompatible with the current scanners. The most defensible decision is to:

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Eliminate the incompatible candidate immediately and choose between the remaining three, since a non-negotiable criterion is not compensated by strong performance on other criteria within the framework.

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Reject all four candidates because the analysis has produced a contradiction between hardware compatibility and the other criteria that cannot be resolved through the standard scoring framework alone.

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Reduce the weight given to scanner compatibility so that the strongest overall candidate can re-enter the analysis as a viable option for selection during the remainder of the procurement process.

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Select the strongest overall scorer regardless of scanner compatibility, since the multi-criteria method is designed to allow strength in some areas to compensate for weakness in others within the framework.

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