[foundation-board] contact on EU tender

Thu Aug 5 09:14:28 UTC 2010

Sorry there are two things here:

  (i) David Osimo asking us (you, Rufus) for support on his bid for
the EU PSI pricing study for the Commission. This is more complicated
in my mind as I'm not sure what his approach is, whether you'd support
it, etc. Also implicitly involves your economist hat, as well as OKF
hat, I presume. Thats what this email thread was originally about. Let
me know either way and I'll sort it out.

  (ii) The ePSIplatform bid. We're thinking of bidding for the tender
for this, drafting led by Ton Zylstra, under the auspices of OKF (and
Tech4i2, David Osimo's company). We have good indication that (i) EC
want to see fresh blood, and (ii) consortium with the OKF and others
would have a strong chance (I'm told competition is mainly fairly
pricey consultants). As Chris Corbin hired Ton to replace him, I'll
ping Ton about speaking to Chris, to give him a chance to spreak to
him before I sound him out. Its 3 year project, circa 300k budget,
around 5 core partners. Deliverables = news platform + series of
events related to PSI (public sector information). Why should OKF do
it? It would heavily overlap with work to build a pan-European network
of open government data advocates and experts, fund lots of events,
and give us a direct pipeline to the Commission on PSI related policy.

J.

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Rufus Pollock <rufus.pollock at okfn.org> wrote:
> Summary from chat yesterday:
>
> Yes, willing to give support. Should:
>
> a) confirm what we would be providing and what we would receive
> b) ping the board (I am cc'ing them on this maili!) -- would prefer
> coord but this is confidential atm ...
> c) perhaps sound chris corbin out to check we are not stepping on any toes ...
>
> Rufus
>
> On 4 August 2010 20:11, Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org> wrote:
>> Willing to give support to team bidding for EU PSI pricing work? If
>> yes I can sort. If no I can sort. ;-)
>>
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: david osimo <david.osimo at gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 5:31 PM
>> Subject: contact on EU tender
>> To: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
>>
>>
>> jonathan
>> following our conversation this morning, I would like to have a kind
>> of "moral support" from OKFN. Concretely, this would mean simply an
>> email by Rufus saying that you would provide feedback and contacts to
>> our work.
>> We're bidding with Deloitte on the tender on "pricing of PSI"
>> I understand Rufus was not keen to work on it. I would be very happy
>> to have you on board. Can you talk to him and see if it's feasible.
>> You know me and my approach to this theme so you might be interested
>> to join.
>> Sorry for being cryptic and thanks for letting me know. I am on a
>> hurry as I am on holiday from tomorrow with little access to mail.
>> I'll be back on 15th. It would be good if you could talk beforehand to
>> avoid OKFN supporting another consortium. I believe we're quite unique
>> in being committed to this theme in the tender.
>> In any case, it was good to talk today, looks very promising.
>> Take care
>> david
>> david.osimo at gmail.com
>> skype, twitter: osimod
>> http://egov20.wordpress.com
>> mobile: +32-498088323
>>
>>
>>
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