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

[Remmy Nweke]

Thanks Bill,
Definitely its of interest and @James for the background.

In fact as US is fact-finding if you like on what the stakeholders have
done over months, there is nothing wrong too if other continents do a
sideline too, just to double sure and ensure the lexis are in line with the
anticipated goals.

But lets wait and see how it goes.
Remmy

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On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Ayden Férdeline <hostime at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1 James
>
> I performed a quick search on the FedBizOpps website a few minutes
> ago, and from my cursory glance at the results this seemed to be
> fairly common language for when a federal agency wants to quickly
> appoint a sole source in order to procure their services. That's not
> to say I think the Berkman Center is or is not the right vendor for
> the role - and I absolutely agree with Stephanie that the optics
> aren't ideal here - but I don't think there is anything necessarily
> nefarious in the language used. The issue I have is more from a
> business processes perspective: surely all public sector contracts
> should be awarded in a transparent and meritocratic manner where we
> pick the best party for the job through a structured evaluation and
> selection procedure — and not on the basis of whether or not we've
> done business with them before. But hey, the NIST is only spending
> taxpayer funds… ;-)
>
> Ayden
>
> P.S. I'm on a train with sketchy wifi and have had to press the 'send'
> button about 20 times... hopefully you receive this message only once.
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