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Re: Changes to the way we manage RFPs

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Wed, 26 February 2020 03:56 UTC

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Subject: Re: Changes to the way we manage RFPs
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Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 16:56:02 +1300
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Hi Jay,

I fully understand the arguments for this change. However, I think it would be good to continue to send a *summary* of the CFP messages to ietf-announce, for community awareness. Ditto for the "Award of contract" messages.

If I see "RFP for IETF Cookie services" or "Award of contract for IETF Cookie services" and I care, then I can go and look for more.

Regards
   Brian

On 26-Feb-20 16:15, IETF Executive Director wrote:
> The IETF Administration LLC is changing the way we manage RFPs.  These changes are part of a larger overhaul that will see further changes come in future.  The changes being made today are:
> 
> 1. As of next week, we will be using a new RFP Announcement Mailing List [1] rfp-announce@ietf.org for all announcements relating to RFPs and stop using IETF-Announce.  This change is intended to help us reach a wider network of potential vendors, both directly through a lower volume, more focused list and indirectly through automated redistribution of issued RFPs.  
> 
> 2. We have a new formal process for managing RFPs, published on the RFPs page [2].
> 
> 3. The RFPs page [2] now includes links to the all of the contracts for RFPs issued by the LLC.  These have the financial informaton redacted and where possible, signatures also redacted.
> 
> 
> Planned changes include:
> 
> * Publishing vendor Conflict of Interest (COI) forms, once reviewed by the LLC Board.
> 
> * Publishing contract templates and non-negotiables (e.g. contract transparency) to allow vendors to study them before bidding.
> 
> * Engaging the community on the principles and processes we use for managing RFPs and what is and isn't appropriate for us to expect in our contracts.
> 
> * We will also investigate implementing some elements of the Open Contracting Data Standard [3]
> 
> 
> Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or feedback.
> 
> [1] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rfp-announce
> [2] https://www.ietf.org/about/administration/rfps/
> [3] https://www.open-contracting.org/data-standard/
>

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