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I believe we would be entirely within our rights to request a review Chris 2008/6/12 Ian Lynch <ian.ly...@zmsl.com>: > Just in case anyone hasn't heard, we were unsuccessful with the BECTA > Ian > You have received this email from the following company: The Learning Documents attached to this email may be in ISO 26300 format:
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.
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> 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.
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