[okfn-coord] Contract with aidinfo

Thu May 7 15:58:00 UTC 2009

2009/5/7 Becky Hogge <becky.hogge at gmail.com>:
> 2009/5/7 Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org>:
>
>> 1. Who is available to do this? (I think the key question is whether
>> between you, me, Jonathan and maybe Becky, we have enough resource to
>> do this in the time available)
>
> If Jordan and Rufus want to braindump something, I'd be pleased to
> spend 0.5-1 day turning it into readable, accessible, pretty-looking
> copy.

Great. To accept the end of May deadline we therefore need agreement
to commit time from Jonathan and/or Jordan.

>> 2. What should be charging and for how many days
>
> (per an email sent to Rufus)
> In terms of what we should charge them for this, I think we should
> charge them a lot - approaching if not equal to our corporate rates.
>
> Development may be non-profit, but it is big business and my intuition
> is that we'd be naive to charge them a discount rate. aidinfo are part
> of development initiatives who are themselves a successful development
> consultancy. publishwhatyufund are funded by Bono - so let's think of
> it as taking back some those extra Euros he's going to earn on the
> term extension ;)

I agree. So we're looking at something between £700 and £900 per day.

> Seriously - I'd like us to consider charging them close to our corporate rate.
>
> Note that the proposal also mentions a hack day they want us to set up
> before June - or have I misread it?

I think you have misread this. I think what they are asking to do (at
the moment) is stated in the half-bolded sentence which reads:

"As a way of starting discussions, consultation and planning in this
workstream we would like to commission a short consultation paper that
sets out the issues and options to consider. "

Regards,

Rufus