The latter is how the former is accomplished. Government employees cannot simply choose not to work with an otherwise winning bidder, so the government has pre-defined rules that allow pre-exclusion from the bidding process. This is one.

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ted_dunning 3 hours ago | parent [-]

No. It is much more than this.

If I sell red widgets that I make by hand to the government, I won't be allowed to use Anthropic to help me write my web-site.

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timr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You’re just restating the implication of the rule, but the rule is as I stated. That’s the point of having such a rule.

	▲	clhodapp 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		As you said: focus on what it does. What it does is prevent companies that Anthropic needs to do business with from doing business with Anthropic.