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Re: [AGA-mcm] Re: Request for Proposals to Host AGA 2006 Convention



You must excuse me, please. I didn't check the AGA web page
until this morning. Either Erik just made those changes or
I've been babbling like an idiot for quite a while -- not
that those are mutually exclusive. Anyway, the bus can
leave now, it looks like Scott has caught up. ;-)

I have two humble offerings in the attached document. First
is revised web page text. I would like to stop calling
these things "bids" and call them "proposals". Really. I'd
like to stop myself from callng them "bids" and I can't
seem to do it. But, as a procurement flunky, I keep
reminding myself that proposals are designed by the
proposers. A bid is a price offered for a specified body of
work or handful of monosolenium. A proposal sounds  more
flexible (flexier?) -- We probably seem rigid enough
without the extra weight of the word -- so let's try to be
flex symbols.

Second, I figured we might as well reflect these points in
the Requirements and Guidelines doc, so I redrafted the 1st
paragraph of that doc as shown in the attachment. The
changed text in that paragraph is underlined for easy
identification. In actual copies of the Requirements and
Guidelines doc, the changed text won't be underlined,
although it may occassionally be illuminated by bright
marquee lights and accompanied with the riproaring sound of
Sousa marches played on kazoos.

sh


-- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

. . .
> 
> Please let me know the final text (Scott, you're the
> head).  I will put 
> that on the website, but will make no more arbitrary
> changes until then.
> 
>    - Erik
> 
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2005, S. Hieber wrote:
> 
> > Ooh, I like that for a couple of reasons. Besides being
> > slightly more generous than demanding 12 months, it
> gives
> > an indication of how much time we think they might need
> to
> > spend on proposal.
> >
> > We could even recommend submitting a draft proposal for
> > comments from AGA somewhere between the 12 month and 9
> > month marks.
> >
> > sh
> >
> >
> > --- Karen Randall <krandall@rdrcpa.biz> wrote:
> >> Whatabout suggesting that preliminary negotiations
> start
> >> at the 12 month
> >> mark in order to help the local organization put
> together
> >> a workable bid by
> >> 9 or 10 months out?
> >>
> >> Karen
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
> >> To: "AGA Advisory Committee" <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
> >> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 8:35 AM
> >> Subject: RE: [AGA-mcm] Re: Request for Proposals to
> Host
> >> AGA 2006 Convention
> >>
> >>
> >>> I wouldn't mind a year in advance except that I think
> it
> >>> will sharply limit the number of responses. Even
> though
> >>> GWAPA, who, e.g., knew well before AGA2k3 that it
> >> wanted to
> >>> propose for AGA2K4, it was not able to get a formal
> >>> proposal together 12 months before AGA2K3.
> >>>
> >>> I suggested about 10 months figuring we'd end up
> >> allowing
> >>> slippage to about 8 months, if pressed.
> >>>
> >>> Btw, wasn't there also a Canadian club that expressed
> >>> interest in hosting a convention in 2005?
> >>>
> >>> sh
> >>> --- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> I would like to see the floating deadline for the
> >>>> proposal be in a full year
> >>>> before the anticipated convention date.
> >>>>
> >>>> Right now I'm getting geared up to start working on
> a
> >>>> consortium of clubs,
> >>>> CAAS, CAPE, and the local NANFA chapter for a
> possible
> >>>> bid at a conference
> >>>> in '07 or '08.
> >>>>
> >>>> Best,
> >>>> Phil
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
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> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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> >>
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> 
> -- 
> Erik Olson
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