FW: Consultant Cost

["June Leung" <June.Leung@fundserv.com>]

Good Morning,

In our previous conference call, we discussed that maybe it's a good idea to come up a proposal to hire a contractor to revamp/update the PKI member section resource page as well as have this person write the 'gap' information on our behalf.  I see the resource page falls under the responsibility of the Education SC because it includes Education Materials on PKI.

I've asked John Sabo to provide me with some information regarding the contractor he hired 1.5 years ago and I've attached his response.

I am in the middle of compiling our list and it will provide us with more info on the 'missing' documentation.

The link below points to the existing resources.  We also have to find a spot to publish our progress to date. 
http://www.pkiforum.org/resources.html

Let me know your thoughts.

1) Do we need contractors?
2) How many hours a week would we need this person?
3) Will this be an ongoing contractor or only for a few months?
4) If it's only for a few months, what do we do for maintenance of the site?
5) Would the same contractor be writing documentation as well as revamping the site?  

thanks june

June Leung
Manager, PKI Department
FundSERV Inc.
1730 130 King St W
Toronto ON M5X 1E5
T. 416.350.2516
F. 416.362.6668 





-----Original Message-----
From: Sabo, John T [mailto:John.T.Sabo@ca.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:30 PM
To: June Leung
Subject: RE: Consultant Cost


June,

The contract cost was $5000, and was for 30-day effort, not to exceed
200 hours. As it turns out, this was a special arrangement with an
expert individual who happened to be available and capable of performing
the services at a heavily discounted hourly rate.  My suspicion is that
just for updating the site, however, we could probably get a more junior
person who would work for this type of compensation.

I'm inserting the service deliverables from the contract related to the
Web site and resource maintenance (there were a few other deliverables
for OASIS management not related to the resources page etc.).  I can
provide the contract boilerplate later if you want to see the whole
thing, but this should give you what you need.

John
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Consultant shall perform the following services:

These are the types of activities in which the consultant will be
engaged going forward; Consulting Projects, Strategic Business
Development, New Membership Sales and New Portal Sponsorship Sales. 

Consulting Projects

#1. Task Overview: Review and Update the OASIS PKI Members Section "PKI
Resources" Web Page 

Performance Period: 30 days 

Performance Hours: Not To Exceed  200 hours

Project Fee:	$5,000 to be paid within 15 days of completion or work
scope (to the satisfaction of the Company and OASIS PKI Member Section
Steering Committee Chair)

Project Management:  This work will be done under the direction of John
Sabo designated representative from the OASIS PKI Member Section
Steering Committee. Coordination with OASIS resources will be done
through the OASIS Director of Communications.

Scope of Work: 

1. Review existing OASIS PKI Resources Web Page for working and broken
links and proper categorization of subjects.

2. Correct existing links. 

3. Research global PKI-related resources and links across the breadth of
subject areas and topics, including PKI technologies, policies, legal
and business issues, digital certificates, government and private sector
organizations, standards, implementations, studies, vendor information,
and any online material relevant to the use of digital certificates,
PKI, public key cryptography and related technologies, including OASIS
and other standards in which PKI and digital certificates are used.

4. Identify and define appropriate categories for resources and links
and organize resource lists appropriately for utility and clarity as an
authoritative, accurate and exhaustive online resource.

5. Ensure that links are succinctly and accurately described. 

6. Provide edited page(s) using HTML editor to Steering Committee per
schedule to be negotiated. 

7. Provide proposed updates on a scheduled basis for review by the PKI
MS steering committee and PKI Technical Committee as determined by the
Steering Committee and for final approval by the PKI MS Steering
Committee.

8. Once approved by PKI MS Steering Committee, work as necessary with
OASIS Webmaster to make the new content available on the Web site.

9. All research, resource descriptions, etc. are the property of OASIS. 

9. This will be a one-time update.  However, OASIS may seek ongoing
services to maintain quality and accuracy of the resources page.



 


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-----Original Message-----
From: June Leung [mailto:June.Leung@FundSERV.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2004 2:43 PM
To: Sabo, John T
Subject: Consultant Cost

Hi John,
The Education SC is putting a proposal together to hire a contractor to
assist us in updating documents on the Oasis PKI member section and to
write some documentation.  Similar to what the LC TC is looking at.
Can you give me an idea how much time the contractor spent on updating
the site and the cost of it?  ie - how much an hour? 
I would like to put something together and mail it to the TC on Monday.
thanks june


June Leung
Manager, PKI Department
FundSERV Inc.
1730 130 King St W
Toronto ON M5X 1E5
T. 416.350.2516
F. 416.362.6668