HHS RFI on Electronic Benefits Transfer Card for Emergencies

[Rex Brooks <rexb@starbourne.com>]

Dear Colleagues,

I have attached a generic response outline for Department of Health 
and Human Services Request for Information: Development and 
Implementation of Electronic Benefits Transfer System for Victims of 
Disaster To Receive Federal and State Benefits due by 5:00 p.m. EDT 
August 14, 2006 by email at Disaster_Storage_RFI@hhs.gov or by 
responding to instructions in the RFI available at 
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2006/E6-9314.htm or through the web 
page at http://www.hhs.gov/emergency/rfi/

I have not answered the questions, but I have formatted the outline 
so that the questions can be answered in a way that will allow the 
finished compilation to assembled quickly, and in such a way that any 
organization or group can adapt it.

You can choose any of the questions for which you have particular 
expertise that you are willing to have added to either a 
HumanMarkup-based approach or Service-Oriented, Semantic 
Interoperability Pilot-augmented approach, and I would be happy to 
work with you in adding it to my personal response, or to either a 
Humanmarkup.org, Inc., or Teaming-Agreement-based response.

I should make it clear that I include all the addressees in this 
message because none are in any kind of direct competition of which I 
am aware, so fielding any combination of expertise that can raise our 
chances of providing the information that will make these responses 
more accurate and more likely to be adopted is my motivation for 
doing this. Of course, if the quality of our responses are sufficient 
to help HHS bring this much-needed program to the point of issuing an 
RFP, the better job we do at this stage will improve our ability to 
respond later in way that will have greater scoring in competition 
for any possible RFP's award.

Thanks for your time and effort.

Warm Regards,
Rex
-- 
Rex Brooks
President, CEO
Starbourne Communications Design
GeoAddress: 1361-A Addison
Berkeley, CA 94702
Tel: 510-849-2309

HHS-RFI-EBT-ResponseOutline.doc