THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700


S U M M A R Y


DIARY: February 13, 1997 10:09 AM Thursday; Rod Welch

Visited Herb Cheong at COE on Welch procurement.

1...Summary/Objective
2...Herb advised that the Port of Oakland does not object to Com Metrics.
3...Payment Being Processed


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CONTACTS 
0201 - Corps of Engineers, SFD            415 977 8400 fax 8483
020101 - Mr. Herb Cheong,; Project Manager =415 977 8705
020102 - Project Management Division

SUBJECTS
Increase Budget, Port of Oakland
Port of Richmond
Sole Source Justification
Objections, Evaluation
DE Objects to Welch
Port Questions Need for Comm Metrics
Remembering (Linked Records - Traceability,
Truth Moving Target on Information Highway,
Comedy of Errors, Management by
Align Communications for a Minute, Human
New World Order
Shared Meaning, Build and Maintain with
Fragile Memory, People Can Align

1915 -    ..
1916 - Summary/Objective
1917 -
191701 - Follow up ref SDS 11 0000, ref SDS 10 0000.
191702 -
191703 - Visited with Herb for about 10 minutes.  He was on his way to another
191704 - meeting, after having completed a phone call.  This is our first visit
191705 - since he left for Christmas vacation.  I submitted on 970113 notes of
191706 - the 970106 Contract Admininstration meeting, but he was not in that
191707 - day, and so the record was placed on his chair. ref SDS 2 0001
191708 - ..
191709 - We discussed briefly needs on Oakland Harbor project for support
191710 - to manage completion of the work and mitigate exposure to claims.
191711 -
191712 - On 970117 Tom Benero indicated that the Port of Oakland objects to Com
191713 - Metrics. ref SDS 4 6288  The same understanding occurred on 970131.
191714 - ref SDS 5 6905
191715 -
191716 -  ..
191717 - Herb advised that the Port of Oakland does not object to Com Metrics.
191718 -
191719 - He recalled having submitted to the Port the scope of services for Com
191720 - Metrics, and the Port approved it.
191721 -
191722 - Herb did not indicate whether this submission and approval occurred
191723 - for the scope of services he received on 961213 to update the Project
191724 - Management Plan, ref SDS 1 0001, or whether it was the more recent
191725 - scope submitted to Marc for a new procurement on 970116. ref SDS 3
191726 - 0001
191727 -
191728 -      [On 970731 Len Cardoza with Port objected. ref SDS 12 8849
191729 - ..
191730 - Herb said the DE sent a LAN message saying Welch does not
191731 - qualify for sole source procurement.
191732 -
191733 - I explained my understandings from discussions with Max and Tom Benero
191734 - that this concern arose from John Eft's memo, which was resolved when
191735 - John met with Tom Keesling, ref SDS 5 line 196.
191736 -
191737 -      [See where District Counsel approved sole source procurement for
191738 -      Welch to provide Communication Metrics, ref SDS 12 line 113.]
191739 -
191740 - Clearly, the status of Communication Metrics on the Oakland Harbor
191741 - project is unclear.  Some people say the Port objects, others say the
191742 - DE objects because the Port objects, others say it does not qualify as
191743 - sole source procurement, others say it does, others say the the Port
191744 - does not object.  Sounds like Communication Metrics is needed to build
191745 - and maintain some "shared meaning."
191746 - ..
191747 - This record seems to reflect the "confusion" that arises from
191748 - the fragility of human memory in an environment of constant meetings,
191749 - calls and documents, i.e., the New World Order..., that results in a
191750 - comedy of errors.
191751 -
191752 -
191753 -
191754 -
1918 -

SUBJECTS
Invoice period 961111 961226

2004 -
200401 -  ..
200402 - Payment Being Processed
200403 -
200404 - Follow up work at ref SDS 11 line 224.
200405 -
200406 - Talked to Rose.  She said she called Sacramento and they now say they
200407 - have all of the documents needed to issue payment.  She said it will
200408 - be 30 days before payment is issued.
200409 -
200410 - I did not mention the discount offered for early payment.
200411 -
200412 -
200413 -
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