David,
I agree with your plan to get quotes from a few
qualified and available consultants. You might
want to talk to Stephen Wilson for one.
Thanks,
Steve
Skyberg, David wrote:
> 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.
>
> - Survey Phase 1
>
> TC members will be the target of the first phase. The contractor
> will conduct the survey with all willing TC members.
>
> - Phase 1 analysis
>
> The contractor will provide analysis of the survey results and
> coordinate feedback from the TC on the survey itself.
>
> - 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.
>
> - 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.
>
> - Survey Phase 2
>
> The contractor will conduct the survey with representative on both
> the consumer and producer side of the PKI industry.
>
> - 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
>
>
>
