Consultant tasks

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

FWIW

Proposed Tasks 

1.      30 days -Consultant will provide a draft schema to the TC within
60 days consistent with the Use Case document version 0.9 to implement
the Binary File MarkUp for eNotarization TC, first rough draft, revision
2.
2.      90 days -Consultant will provide an Enotary Specification for
binary file markup for all other use cases as outlined in the face to
face meeting minutes of July 2007, building upon the schema in number 1
and making such changes and modifications thereto as directed by the TC
and incorporating the other TC use cases.  

3.      180 days -Consultant will provide a complete draft EN 1.0
Specification including a compliant with for structure and semantics,
and consistent with current PRIA and MISMO and the National Information
Exchange Model (NIEM) 2.0 releases, the TC use case document, and the
existing signature profiles.

4.      240 days -Consultant will provide a near final EN 1.0 Core
Specification with such draft Profile Specifications as may be
practically required to achieve interoperable applications.

5.      360-450 days -Consultant will finalize all specifications in
light of comments.

Schedule B 

Rate Sheet 

Consultant will provide the following staff to perform the services
listed in Schedule A at the standard hourly rates listed below.  The 
total cost of the project, including both professional services and
expenses, will not exceed $50,000.  Consultant will bill OASIS $15,000 
upon delivery and acceptance of deliverables 1-2 to the TC, $20,000 upon
delivery and acceptance of deliverables 3-4 to the TC, and the remainder
at the conclusion of the project. 

I think this is a good starting basis. 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: John Messing 
To: Arshad Noor 
Cc: Rolly Chambers ; Mark Ladd 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 9:43 AM
Subject: RE: Update


According to Patrick Gannon, there is a form of contract that has two 
appendices. The TC and the consultant need to reach agreement on the 
appendices. The first principally includes these topics: tasks and 
deliverables, and a rate sheet. The rest is pretty much standard. 

What follows is an example drawn from the Electronic Court Filing TC 
contract of this year: 

Tasks 

1.      Consultant will provide the ECF 3.1 Core Specification including
a 
complete Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) compliant 
with the Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) 3.0.3.  ECF 3.1 will 
include the following additions/modifications to the 3.0 specification: 
a.      Add bar number 
b.      Add person identifier (id/idref) 
c.      Add transactional case identifiers 
d.      Add policy enhancements for hierarchies and context 
e.      Add support for multiple filing parties 
f.      Add a timestamp 
g.      Add support for demand and judgement amounts 
h.      Add support for multiple versions of the same document 
i.      Add child support elements 
j.      Add additional instances 
k.      Add description of architectural principles 
l.      Add description of approach for self represented litigants 
m.      Add description of version changes 
n.      Change mappings/definitions to reconcile with GJXDM 
o.      Change fee query to return itemized filing related fees 
p.      Change DocumentType to not require CaseCourtEvent 
q.      Change CourtEvent to support multiple documents 
r.      Change schemas as needed to fix validation issues 
s.      Change references to externally defined schemas 

2.      Consultant will provide the ECF 3.1 Web Service SIP
Specification 
including the following additions/modifications to the 3.0 
specification: 
a.      Change web services SIP to use MTOM 

3.      Consultant will provide the ECF 4.0 Core Specification including
a 
complete Information Exchange Package Documentation (IEPD) compliant 
with the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) "Harmony" release. 
ECF 4.0 will include the following additions/modifications to the 3.1 
specification: 
a.      Add appellate courts case types 
b.      Add lower courts (traffic, etc.) case types 
c.      Add description of version changes 
d.      Change party attorney relationships 
e.      Change core specification to conform to NIEM 
f.      Change service schemas as needed 

4.      Consultant will provide the ECF 4.0 Web Service SIP
Specification 
which will include the following additions/modifications to the 3.1 
specification: 
a.      Add support for bulk filings to web services SIP 
b.      Add support for chunking to web services SIP 

With regard to rates, with confidential information removed, this is 
what the contract provided: 

Schedule B 

Rate Sheet 

Consultant will provide the following staff to perform the services 
listed in Schedule A at the standard hourly rates listed below.  The 
total cost of the project, including both professional services and 
expenses, will not exceed $25,800.  Consultant will bill OASIS $10,000 
upon delivery of deliverables 1-2 to the TC and the remainder at the 
conclusion of the project. 

I think this is a good starting basis. 

> -------- Original Message -------- 
> From: Arshad Noor <arshad.noor@strongauth.com> 
> Date: Thu, October 11, 2007 8:56 am 
> To: John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com> 
> 
> 
> What do you need from me as a next step, John, to be in 
> the running for this?  Thanks. 
> 
> Arshad 
> 
> John Messing wrote: 
> > The Steering Committee today approved the additional eNotary budgetary 
> > consulting funds for 2008. The TC intends to enter a consulting contract 
> > at the earliest possible time. 
> >