Re: looks like it's happening everywhere but the US.

On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 14:45, Jeff Kinz wrote:
> Tom - Please trim your posts down to the relevant pieces.
> 
> Please post just one example of a LAW or even a regulation that states 
> "Vendor X cannot bid for this work" Excepting cases where the vendor 
> is excluded for reasons of conflict of interest, criminal history,
> or has already been selected to audit or supervise the work, or has
> already been eliminated from the selection process in a previous bidding
> round.
> 
> 
I didn't interpret Tom's posting as referring to legal exclusion...it is
done every day in tenders even when there are clear policies in favour
of open standards. A simple example is requiring that a solution run on
Brand X  proprietary platform...most often this is done to conform to an
IT departments defacto technology environment for what are often good
practical short term reasons. But this practice clearly excludes vendors
and is self perpetuating which in the long run results in very
significant diminishing returns. 

If this wasn't true there wouldn't be the big effort to achieve better
post 9/11 inter-agency interoperability and integration in the US.

Joseph
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e-cology corporation