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<DIV>Then I’m thinking the RFP was written in such a way that only HP in Idaho
has the capacity to meet its terms. So sad. Doesn’t seem to fit with
all the Party rhetoric about protecting small business. If Frontier and US
West are local businesses, then so is Walmart. Thanks for the informative
response, Kevin. I’m thinking most Idaho voters aren’t even aware of this
twist. Few of us find RFPs as exciting as James Patterson.
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<DIV>Sue H</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=kowen@fsr.com
href="mailto:kowen@fsr.com">Kevin Owen</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 29, 2012 7:27 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=suehovey@moscow.com
href="mailto:suehovey@moscow.com">Sue Hovey</A> ; <A
title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe
Campbell</A> ; <A title=rforce2003@yahoo.com
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow Vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Vision2020] Computer contract over
estimate</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Sue,
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">You
are so correct about cutting out the small vendors. This contract (as it
was first written in the RFP) required that not only you provide the wireless
devices, (laptops), but that you maintain them for the duration and provide the
technical support for them. You must also have committed to building out
and installing new wireless distribution services to each high school in the
State. And the final kicker, you must be the original equipment
manufacturer of the laptops. That means, even if First Step was big enough
to have provided all of the support services and installations around the
State, we still would have been excluded because we don’t make our own
hardware!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">This
is just a further continuation of the local companies that have been servicing
the schools for years being replaced. It is the same thing that happened
when the State put in the tax payer funded Idaho Education Network. The
local ISP’s that were providing service to the schools were removed in almost
all cases. First Step was able to continue working with a few schools but
for the most part we were replaced with more expensive services. When we,
and several lawmakers, asked about the comments that the IEN had made in the
planning stages stating they would use local businesses to provide the service,
their response was that Frontier and US West (now CenturyLink) were local
businesses just like First Step.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><BR>Yes,
I predict the local / smaller companies will be further replaced in this
plan. I hope we can find a positive way to continue working with the IEN
but given the past I am not sure there will be a place for
us.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Kevin
Owen<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">First
Step Internet, LLC<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <B>On
Behalf Of </B>Sue Hovey<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 27, 2012 3:27
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Joe Campbell; Ron Force<BR><B>Cc:</B> Moscow
Vision2020<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Computer contract over
estimate<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Oh, I think he adds
pretty well. What he cannot do, is tell the truth. Want to bet HP is
helping to fund the YES vote? One of the concerns I heard the other
day concerned the type of bid. It is so whole cloth that it cuts out all
the smaller vendors. I suppose HP might sub-contract, but that
wasn’t what the companies wanted.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Sue H
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">From:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=philosopher.joe@gmail.com href="mailto:philosopher.joe@gmail.com">Joe
Campbell</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Sent:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">
Saturday, October 27, 2012 9:50 AM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">To:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=rforce2003@yahoo.com href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">Ron Force</A>
<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Cc:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Moscow
Vision2020</A> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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<P style="BACKGROUND: whitesmoke" class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Subject:</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Tahoma','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"> Re:
[Vision2020] Computer contract over
estimate<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; COLOR: black">Essentially the Idaho
Superintendent of Public Instruction cannot add.<BR><BR>On Oct 27, 2012, at 9:13
AM, Ron Force <<A
href="mailto:rforce2003@yahoo.com">rforce2003@yahoo.com</A>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 18pt">$180
Million Contract Divides Lawmakers</SPAN></B><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #333333"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="BORDER-BOTTOM: windowtext 1pt; BORDER-LEFT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; TEXT-TRANSFORM: uppercase; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; BORDER-TOP: windowtext 1pt; BORDER-RIGHT: windowtext 1pt; PADDING-TOP: 0in">BOISE,
IDAHO</SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt"> —
The eight-year, $180 million pact with Hewlett-Packard Co. for laptops
required under public schools chief Tom Luna's education overhaul is dividing
Idaho's Republican lawmakers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Rep.
Lynn Luker of Boise said Friday during a meeting inside the Capitol the price
was "double pretty much what we anticipated."<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Sen.
John Goedde of Coeur d'Alene countered it's only 10 percent above
estimates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Who's
right?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">In
2011, Luna estimated the five-year cost at $70.8 million, or $14.6 million
annually.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">For
the first five years of the actual H-P contract, the cost is $82 million,
about 16 percent higher, conceded Luna spokeswoman Melissa
McGrath.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="MARGIN-TOP: 15pt; OUTLINE-STYLE: none; OUTLINE-COLOR: invert; OUTLINE-WIDTH: 0px; MAX-WIDTH: 620px !important; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 15pt">
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">And
over eight years, the average annual cost runs $22.5 million, well over Luna's
estimate when calculated yearly.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'inherit','serif'; COLOR: #333333; FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt">Voters
weigh in on the computers and Luna's additional education changes Nov.
6.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><BR>Read
more here: <A
href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/10/27/2325238/180m-computer-contract-divides.html#storylink=cpy">http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/10/27/2325238/180m-computer-contract-divides.html#storylink=cpy</A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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