[NCUC-DISCUSS] Berkman Center to review the proposal to NTIA

[James Gannon]

As much as I sympathise, with the timelines involved that would not have been a workable solution IMHO. Just setting up the practise of work would have likely took half of the contract length.

-James




On 19/03/2016, 5:59 p.m., "Ncuc-discuss on behalf of Renata Aquino Ribeiro" <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org on behalf of raquino at gmail.com> wrote:

>Could be someone else's show but 1 university instead of a consortium
>could be interpreted as a shared loss.
>
>On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 2:49 PM, James Gannon <james at cyberinvasion.net> wrote:
>> I can ally your fears that the review is costing that much =)
>> https://www.sba.gov/sites/default/files/files/Size_Standards_Table.pdf
>>
>> Size standards such as the 27.5m identified in the contract are guiding
>> standards for the size of the organisation indenting to contract to be able
>> to still qualify as a small or medium enterprise under federal contracting
>> guidelines and not an indication of the size of the contract itself. So what
>> the figure means is that Berkman has a rough budget or size of enterprise of
>> under 27.5m USD.
>>
>> -James
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Ncuc-discuss <ncuc-discuss-bounces at lists.ncuc.org> on behalf of Seun
>> Ojedeji <seun.ojedeji at gmail.com>
>> Date: Saturday 19 March 2016 at 5:40 p.m.
>> To: William Drake <william.drake at uzh.ch>
>> Cc: NCUC-discuss <ncuc-discuss at lists.ncuc.org>
>> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] Berkman Center to review the proposal to NTIA
>>
>> The wording of the write-up is quite systematic, it's simply saying; we are
>> contracting Berkman Center because we know they will do a good job (even
>> though they didn't express interest initially) and any body is welcome to
>> respond to this information irrespective we will proceed anyway.
>>
>> Here I was thinking a lot was spent on the transition already owning to the
>> expense published by Xavier, but with 27.5M just for review of a well
>> documented 2 years work. I guess one could congratulate the MS community for
>> spending less in the getting the actual work done.
>>
>> Overall its US govt show now, it's their budget, their funds and their
>> process. The MS community has done her part.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>> Sent from my LG G4
>> Kindly excuse brevity and typos
>>
>> On 19 Mar 2016 15:07, "William Drake" <william.drake at uzh.ch> wrote:
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