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Re: City ditched plan to run open-data competition for new traffic app Paid tens of thousands in sole-sourced deal to Toronto company instead

Posted by Herb Lainchbury on Nov 27, 2013; 4:05am
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/City-ditched-plan-to-run-open-data-competition-for-new-traffic-app-Paid-tens-of-thousands-in-sole-sod-tp6345p6347.html

"a contract with a company that has some permanence guarantees ongoing support"

Hmm... it seems like he's expecting a lot of a new small company.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://flybits.com/

Interesting strategy, but I think the city would have been much better off with a contest followed by a potential support contract if they liked any of the apps.  

If it is supported apps they want (which is understandable) I would also encourage cities to state in the contest rules that they are looking for firms that can potentially provide ongoing support.  I think this would help set expectations and would actually bring more vendors out to the contest as it would increase the potential reward.  Even if the original developer couldn't support it, this could be provided by another firm if need be.

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On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Tracey P. Lauriault <[hidden email]> wrote:
"And second, a contract with a company that has some permanence guarantees ongoing support. An amateur programmer who’s really good at programming could land a time-consuming job or move away or just lose interest. “And then what do we have? We have nothing,” Tierney said."


And what was wrong with 511.ca?


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