[Intro]

Procurement Policy Update.
Effective January first.

Following lessons learned
From the recent cooling incident—

[Verse]

The server room stood cold again.
His case remained "under review," and then—
Mara brought the form once more:
"They need the V-A-T. That's the score."

"I sent it twice, on Thursday night."
"Now add a manager's sign, done right."
A company message lit the screen:
NEW PROCUREMENT FRAMEWORK RELEASED.

[Chorus]

Four quotes required next year,
Management has made the lesson clear.
Three were not enough to guarantee
Complete commercial visibility.

When urgency and policy collide,
Add another vendor to the line.

[Verse]

Sixty pages, stages upon stages.
Emergency spend got sixteen new pages.
Approved suppliers stayed the same;
Delegated powers kept each name.

Appendix four, in bureaucrat prose:
"For urgent buys, one more quote also goes."
Mara said, "Tell me I got that wrong."
"No," he said. "They've made the process strong."

[Pre-Chorus]

Three clipped chords became four beats—
The music learned; the rule repeats.
The rising note returned once more.
Nothing else had changed before.

[Chorus]

Four quotes required next year,
Management has made the lesson clear.
Three were not enough to guarantee
Complete commercial visibility.

When urgency and policy collide,
Add another vendor to the line.

[Guitar Interlude]

[Bridge]

Mara asked, "And when it fails again?"
"We act before the warning's plain.
We make the choice, and make it clear,
Before the policy can interfere."

[Build-up]

One quote for price. One quote for terms.
One quote for freight. One quote for forms.
Four clean offers, four replies—
Four approved ways to watch the temperature rise.

[Final Chorus]

Four quotes required next year,
Raise the threshold, make the process clear.
Add another page and call it wise,
While the old risk waits behind the lines.

We needed three before the fire—
Now four are formally required.

[Reprise]

Four quotes required. Four quotes required.
The office chorus sang it clear.
Mara closed the policy file.
Oliver switched off his screen.

[Outro]

Behind the reinforced server-room door,
The fan kept turning, steady, sure.
Four guitar strikes faded slowly.
The temperature: twenty-two.