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Chris Puttick  
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 More options 13 June 2008, 07:06
From: "Chris Puttick" <cputt...@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:06:02 +0100
Local: Fri 13 June 2008 07:06
Subject: Re: [sf-uk-discuss] BECTA
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I believe we would be entirely within our rights to request a review
of the decision; appointing a company with no track record in delivery
of key aspects of the product tendered for seems a highly
inappropriate way to disburse public funds. If Becta procurement
assessors do not understand the complexities of successfully creating
a sustainable open source product, they should have engaged a
consultant to help them.

Chris

2008/6/12 Ian Lynch <ian.ly...@zmsl.com>:

> Just in case anyone hasn't heard, we were unsuccessful with the BECTA
> contract. Apparently some company that has no known experience or track
> record in FOSS won it. Looking at the detailed assessment criteria, they
> seem skewed away from FOSS and towards subjective judgements about what
> professional attributes are important in such a project. Of course none
> of that detail was in the spec so I'm afraid I naturally assumed a track
> record of building FOSS communities in the target education sector would
> be important. Clearly that was a critical error. Apologies.

> Ian
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