HCD.2:5.3 - One Feasible Candidate Is Not a Winner

A named person has a qualified near-term engineering task and strong entry evidence. Only one candidate currently fits the deadline and available project access; a second candidate depends on an unavailable specialist. HCD.2 may return the feasible candidate, its finite comparison with the current configuration, and the exact specialist result that blocks the other candidate. It does not invent a weak rival, call the feasible programme universally best, or infer that the programme will work. A later provider result, deadline change, or changed task reopens the bounded comparison.