It appears that Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) Request for Proposals (RFP) process needed consultants, not to respond to the RFP, but to learn how to write an RFP that had a realistic time frame, focused on the highest priority issues facing the district, and provided for meaningful community discussion and decision-making.
Because of the inadequacies of its RFP, the MPS could not find suitable responses (only 1 of 22 invited to respond sent a response) when it requested proposals from consultants to facilitate a public discussion process about future options for city schools. Subsequently, interim superintendent Jennings invited two consultants to propose their own parameters for an RFP that, no surprise, were substantially different from the original. After the MPS learned about the weaknesses of its RFP, it should have addressed its inadequacies and opened a revised RFP to the best advice possible rather restricting its options to "hand-picked" consultants that it has now hired (for $155,000 to $190,000) as sole-bid contractors. Arthur T. Himmelman Loring Park REMINDERS: 1. Think a member has violated the rules? Email the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
