OPS.11.1:5.3 - An outside service can remain compact

A team must release a report by Friday. An external reviewer undertakes to return comments within one working day for the proposed submission class and volume. The team’s comparison changes its internal preparation sequence but leaves that submission within the commitment.

The model needs the external review step, its working calendar and the team’s response to comments. It can use the promised response as a conditional input without modeling the reviewer’s internal allocation. If the proposal instead triples submissions beyond the commitment, that input no longer answers the changed use. Return to the external capacity or commitment question before relying on the old delay.