Re: Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)
Actually, there is a nice US Supreme Court ruling that any documents under the _control_ of the agency _are_ subject to FOIA. The database that moved from SRI to NSI did so as part of a contract with NSF (and DARPA before them). Therefore, the control argument should hold. But you'd have to test it in court. WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
SRI lost to NSI in a competitive procurement run by DISA, and SRI turned over the database to NSI as a consequence. The DISA contract with NSI only covered USG-related material (e.g., .GOV, .MIL), so NSF and DISA executed an agreement under which NSI would convert and maintain *all* of the database in return for a month-to-month payment of (memory's a bit hazy here) $20k, while NSF prepared, issued, and executed a competitive solicitation for NIC services for non-USG customers - including .EDU, obviously but also .COM. When the dust settled on the peer-reviewed and competitive NSF solicitation, NSI had won the registration piece; this avoided yet another transfer of the non-USG-related part of the database to the winner. -s
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