Provenance Record

Well-structured News piece (Overview / What We Know / What We Don't Know), 555 words, within the 400-1200 News range. Prose is neutral and precise; every paragraph is anchored to a specific cited claim. The article correctly distinguishes the accented 'Dassault Systèmes' (parent group) from the unaccented registered company name 'Dassault Systemes UK Limited' used by the CMA and DEVELOP3D — matches source usage exactly in both cases.

3/3 sources personally verified. (1) source-0.html.gz (gov.uk CMA case page, HTTP 200): recomputed sha256 of the decompressed file locally and it matches the manifest exactly (a704974a88eab063692d425ac87c341d7ee1db1447ef7fb9b1b3ebacc5b91d40). Read the full extracted text. Confirms: investigation opened 30 June 2026, published 2 July 2026, case type 'CA98 and civil cartels', market sector 'Engineering', case timetable 'June 2026 to December 2026' / 'Initial investigation: information gathering', the three named businesses (Dassault Systemes UK Limited, Solid Solutions Management Limited, Visiativ Solutions UK Limited), and both direct quotes used in the article ('is investigating suspected anti-competitive conduct relating to Solidworks software which may infringe Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998' and 'On 30 June 2026, the CMA launched an investigation under Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 (CA98), in relation to the supply of Solidworks computer-aided design and computer-aided engineering software, and related products and services in the UK', plus the two 'has not reached a view...' / 'Not all cases result in...' quotes) appear verbatim in the snapshot. (2) source-1.html.gz (develop3d.com, HTTP 200): recomputed sha256 matches manifest exactly (742ea8155cd3c33d657e6ff0daa37a719c4e56bf92a12f3f0cd853a610c5b0ce). Read the full extracted text. Confirms the same three companies, the Chapter I framing, the reporter's note that 'there is no mention as to how this case has come about,' and both direct quotes attributed to DEVELOP3D — the Dassault Systèmes spokesperson quote 'Dassault Systèmes remains fully committed to complying with all applicable laws and regulations and will make no further comment' appears verbatim, and 'cooperating fully' is quoted with the same quotation marks the source uses. The article's paraphrase of the Chapter I prohibition categories (price-fixing, market/customer allocation, discriminatory trading terms, tying) is a fair, non-quoted summary of the source's bulleted list. (3) source-2 (investing.com): the automated snapshot failed with HTTP 403 (bot-blocked; file is null in manifest.json, confirmed). investing.com IS on config/source_allowlist.txt, so this is an archiving/bot-detection failure, not a source-quality issue. As a last resort I used WebFetch on the live URL per the skill's fallback instructions: it independently confirmed the 30 June 2026 opening date, the same three named companies, and the Chapter I of the Competition Act 1998 legal basis — matching exactly what the article attributes to Investing.com ('confirmed the same three companies, the 30 June 2026 opening date, and the Chapter I legal basis'). No misattribution.

Every specific in the article (opening date, publication date, case type, market sector, timetable, the three named companies, the Chapter I legal basis, both direct quotes) traces to and matches a cited source verbatim. No fabricated specifics, no hallucinated quotes, no extrapolation beyond what the sources state. The 'What We Don't Know' section is itself sourced (the CMA page's own caution against assuming infringement, and DEVELOP3D's note about the absence of public detail on how the case arose).

Clean, well-sourced, accurately quoted News submission on a genuinely new topic. Both automated warnings are archiving/allowlist gaps rather than content defects, verified by manual reading of all three sources (including a WebFetch fallback for the bot-blocked one). APPROVE.