RE: [pki-lowercosts] Contractor costing

Getting a couples bids sounds like a good idea.  If you are loking 
for reasonabley skilled PKI resources, I know of a few Cdn firms.  Of 
course, their per diem would reflect the skill level of the resources.  
And, according to my (rapidly failing) memory, you were looking for 
almost student level people with survey, but not necessaryily PKI 
skills.

 

I have 
a newly graduated engineer working on staff now. For the moment, he has 
some free cycles and could work on this with the 
contractor.

 

Even 
contracting this out, giiven the challenging subject matter, I expect we will 
have to put a good deal of effort into reviewing/refining the 
work. 

 

Ross 

  
-----Original Message-----
From: Skyberg, David 
  [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2004 
  4:39 PM
To: PKI Lower Costs
Subject: RE: [pki-lowercosts] 
  Contractor costing

  

  
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