Hi Ross,
In response to your question—we agreed
a couple of months ago that none of the current members of this sub committee
have the time to actually perform on any of these task, and that we need to
hire a contractor to get this done. So, the work of this sub committee begins
with identifying the contractor tasks and then getting bids on the work. Thus,
the contractor cost.
Now on to the next topic. We need to get
some bids on this. Does anyone have an idea of where to send this? I know
Arshad had offered to take a stab at estimating the cost. But that was to
support providing feedback into the Membership Section budgeting process. I
think it’s a waste of time at this point and that we should give this
directly to a couple of folks that can perform on it. Then as a committee, we
can select the candidate we want to go with, take the bid to the steering
committee for funding, and get this work turned on.
Hi Steve,
You originally had an action item to dig
up a sample funding document so that I could prepare the funding request. Personally,
given how we are currently handling these sorts of things in the steering
committee, I don’t think that is necessary. I suggest we simply take the
proposals we get from the contractor(s) and use that as the basis for our
funding request. Comments?
OK folks, we’re almost there! All
we need now is a contractor!
=david
From: Ross Smith
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004
8:05 PM
To: Skyberg,
David; PKI Lower Costs
Subject: RE: [pki-lowercosts]
Contractor costing
David - I think it looks fine. We
are all going to have to find the time to provide input into the survey.
I am curious about the subject line
"Contractor Costing".
Ross
-----Original Message-----
From: Skyberg,
David [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004
9:51 AM
To: PKI Lower Costs
Subject: [pki-lowercosts]
Contractor costing
Hi folks,
We really need to close on this issue soon. At our
current rate, I don’t see us doing much of anything for the remainder of
the year. We really need to pick up the pace! Here is the list of
tasks that we have outlined. Let’s please all take a moment and
flesh these out so that we have what we believe to be a complete set of tasks.
If you don’t have any input for this, then please signal your
acceptance by emailing as such to the group.
Draft the survey
Work with the sub committee members
to draft a survey. The sub committee will approve the survey before the
survey is conducted.
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Survey Phase 1
TC members will be the target of the
first phase. The contractor will conduct the survey with all willing TC
members.
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Phase 1 analysis
The contractor will provide analysis
of the survey results and coordinate feedback from the TC on the survey itself.
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Refine the Survey
The contractor will edit and refine
the survey based on the feedback from the TC, the analysis of the phase 1 results,
and guidance from the sub committee.
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Identify second phase targets
The contractor will coordinate input
from the TC as to likely candidates for the second phase survey. The
subcommittee will approve the final list.
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Survey Phase 2
The contractor will conduct the
survey with representative on both the consumer and producer side of the PKI
industry.
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Report analysis of results
The contractor will report analysis
of the results to the sub committee in a format suitable for reporting to both
the TC as well as the public
