De: Rossi Bruno (A) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enviat: dimarts, 14 / desembre / 2004 11:49
Per a: Gasperi Paolo (A)
Tema: Call for Subcontractors of the Project COSPA
Call for sub-contractors
The EU FP6 Project COSPA, the Consortium for the Open Source in the Public Administration, is currently looking for subcontractor(s) to widen the scope of its experimentation of the transition to Open Source Personal Productivity tools in European Public Administrations.
For COSPA large experimentation is a key in
drafting sound conclusions.
Therefore
additional experimental sites are being sought.
The
target subcontractor should:
(a)
experiment the transition to the open source tools defined by
the COSPA Consortium in at least
1500 work sites in public
administration offices; the target tools
currently include
OpenOffice.org (as the first step) and Linux Desktop (as the
second step);
(b) perform the related activities, including the
participation
in requirement acquisition activities, evaluation sessions,
development of a
knowledge base of the results, participation
at dissemination and exploitation activities;
(c) let the consortium evaluate the results
of the transition with
the experimental set up defined by the consortium,
including
(1) the administration of
questionnaires to the experimenters
and
(2) the
application of the PROM tool;
(d)
belong preferentially to a new member state or an affiliate
state, even if exceptions might be
granted
As for the regulatory of European Commission, the work of each subcontractor will cover only the execution of limited part of the COSPA project.
The full body of the description of work of
COSPA and related deliverable can be found at URL:
http://www.cospa-project.org/Call4Experimenters/DescriptionOfWork.pdf
The maximum award per subcontractor is EUR12,000 all inclusive.
Interested parties should send their statement of interest by January 15,
2005 by email to:
Prof. Giancarlo Succi
Center for Applied Software Engineering
Free University of Bolzano/Bozen
Dominikanerplatz 3 Piazza Domenicani
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The statement of interest should include:
1. The motivation to join COSPA as subcontractor 2.
Details of the 1500 work sites to use in the experimentation 3. The amount
requested 4. The completed questionnaire on the Open Source tools and of
the
Open Data Standards in use - the
questionnaire can be found at URL:
http://www.cospa-project.org/Call4Experimenters/D2.1.pdf
http://www.cospa-project.org/Call4Experimenters/D2.2.pdf
5. If the applicant is not a public
administration, detailed
commitment letters of the public administrations that will
be involved in the experimentation,
including contact people
in such public administration that will be contacted to ensure
their commitment to the project
The consortium will evaluate the requests
based on the following
criteria:
1. Clear evidence of
the possibility to satisfy the duties as subcontractor 2. Motivation and
commitment 3. Potentials for followup partnerships 4. Synergies and
complementarities with the rest of the consortium 5. Best price-quality
ratio
Preference could be given to applicants where currently no COSPA experimentation is undergoing.
________________________________________
Giancarlo Succi, PhD, PEng
Professor and Director
Center for Applied Software Engineering
Faculty of Computer Science
Free University of Bozen
Dominikanerplatz 3 Piazza Domenicani
I-39100 Bozen, Italy
ph: +39(0471)016-131 - fax: +39(0471)016-009 - m:
+39(320)922-4192
e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.case.unibz.it
