[foundation-board] contact on EU tender

Mon Aug 16 20:25:07 UTC 2010

On 5 Aug 2010, at 10:14, Jonathan Gray wrote:

>  (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.

Did we end going for this?

Thanks!

~Jordan

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> J.
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> 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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>>> Jonathan Gray
>>> 
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>>> The Open Knowledge Foundation
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