Dear Review Team, In response to Alan's request "In addition to posting this RFP publicly, staff has identified two potential consultants to explicitly be invited to bid, One World Trust and Ken Bour. With this note, I ask staff to explain why they believe that they could meet our needs.": Staff believes that One World Trust potentially could meet the needs of the Review Team because of their prior work for ICANN and their specific expertise in the area of accountability and transparency. Ken Bour (kbpraxis.com<http://kbpraxis.com>) has the required depth of understanding of ICANN's policy development process, GNSO structures, and a demonstrated ability to work efficiently. Larisa B. Gurnick Consultant/Senior Director, Organizational Reviews Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) larisa.gurnick@icann.org<mailto:larisa.gurnick@icann.org> 310 383-8995 From: atrt2-bounces@icann.org [mailto:atrt2-bounces@icann.org] On Behalf Of Alan Greenberg Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:34 PM To: ATRT2 Subject: [atrt2] URGENT: Final Draft RFP Importance: High Attached please find the hopefully final RFP. Before disappearing for the next week, Brian made some edits, one of which removed the explicit reference to the GAC under scope of work. Since he is not here to present his rationale, I have temporarily left in his comment about why he felt strongly that the particular reference should not be included in the RFP. Partly in response to that, Lise and I, with Avri's agreement included an explicit reference to ICANN ACs and SOs in the Annex description of stakeholders. In addition to posting this RFP publicly, staff has identified two potential consultants to explicitly be invited to bid, One World Trust and Ken Bour. With this note, I ask staff to explain why they believe that they could meet our needs. If anyone on the RT has additional suggestions for who to invite, please let us know quickly. The list of those submitting proposals to the ATRT1 competition can be found at http://www.icann.org/en/about/aoc-review/atrt/rfp-respondents-evaluation-19j... . If we are to meet the target issue date of July 1 (next Monday!), we need to finalize everything quickly, so I ask for all comments and suggestions to arrive no later that 12:00 UTC on Friday, June 28. If there are any crucial edits to them RFP itself, please submit them as soon as possible to allow discussion. Alan