Fw: Computer Purchasing Guidelines

[Tom Achtenberg]

Here is the response I received from David Cantelme, Deer Valley school
board member.  He is the one who has arizonalawinstitute@yahoo.com as his
email address.  It sounds to me that all the school districts and the state
itself should be starting debarment proceedings against MS.  We need to
start contacting the legislators, Attorney General's office and your local
school superintendents.


----- Original Message -----
From: "david cantelme" <arizonalawinstitute@yahoo.com>
To: "Tom Achtenberg" <tom@mrhsband.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 6:08 AM
Subject: Re: Computer Purchasing Guidelines


Dear Mr. Actenburg:

They do not, but similar rules found in the state
school district procurement rules do apply.  Both sets
of rules have their origen in the state procurement
code.  You can find the school district procurement
rules by going to the secretary of state web site.
Click on administrative rules.  Go to title seven.
Then scroll down to R7-2-1001.  That's where the rules
begin.  They continue to about R7-2-1175.

Debarment procedures do exist in the school district
procurement rules.  You would need to address your
comments on debarment to the adminsitration.  That's
who would initiate the procedure.  If the
administration initiates a debarment procedure, the
board determines whether to appoint a hearing officer.
 It goes from there to the officer with appropriate
due process to the contractor.  The board itself has
no involvement in the hearing process.  The officer
must be independent to ensure a fair hearing under our
constitutional system.

--- Tom Achtenberg <tom@mrhsband.org> wrote:
> I was wondering if the Maricopa County purchasing
> policies listed below apply
> to DVUSD purchasing pprocedures?
>
> Maricopa County policies.  Interesting references:
>
> MC1-101 DEFINITIONS
> 25."CONTRACTOR" means any Person who has a Contract
> with a County
> Governmental unit. For purposes of Article 5,
> Contractor may also mean
> Respondent as defined in this Article.
> 36."DEBARMENT" means an action taken by the County
> Administrative
> Officer under MC1-902 to prohibit a Person from
> Participating in
> Maricopa County Procurements.
> 80."PERSON" means any corporation, Business,
> individual, union,
> committee, club, other organization or group of
> individuals.
> 113."SUSPENSION" means an action taken by the County
> Administrative
> Officer under MC1-902 temporarily disqualifying a
> Person from
> participating in Maricopa County Procurements.
>
http://maricopa.gov/materials/p-code/HTML_code/Code-01.htm
>
> [Microsoft is considered a Contractor and a Person.
> This is important
> below.]
>
>
> MC1-407 MAXIMUM PRACTICABLE COMPETITION
> All Specifications shall seek to promote overall
> economy for the purpose
> intended and encourage competition in satisfying
> Maricopa County's needs
> and shall not be unduly restrictive.
>
http://maricopa.gov/materials/p-code/HTML_code/Code-04.htm#MC1-401
>
> [Is there any technology that is Microsoft
> exclusive?  I believe there
> are sites that explain how to replace Exchange
> Server completely using
> Linux/OSS with Qmail; and SQL Server is replaceable
> with mySQL or PostgreSQL;
> IIS & ASP is replaceable with Apache & PHP, The MS
> Office suite is
> replaceable with the very comparable Open Office
> suite.]
>
>
> MC1-902 DEBARMENT AND SUSPENSION OF CONTRACTORS
> B. The causes for Debarment or Suspension shall
> include, but are not
> limited to, the following:
> 2. Conviction of any Person or any subsidiary or
> affiliate of any Person
> under any statute of the Federal government, this
> State or its political
> subdivision or any other State for:
> k. Any other offense indicating a lack of business
> integrity or business
> honesty which affects responsibility as a
> Contractor.
> 3. Conviction or civil judgment finding a violation
> by any Person or any
> subsidiary or affiliate of any Person under State or
> Federal Antitrust
> Statutes.
>
>
http://maricopa.gov/materials/p-code/HTML_code/Code-09.htm#MC1-901
>
> As I read MC1-902.B.3, Microsoft (a Person), having
> been convicted of a
> violation of Federal Antitrust Statues, cannot be a
> County Contractor.
>
> There are many alternatives to Microsofts products.
> Alternatives that have
> broken no laws, Federal or Local, are well supported
> and used by many large
> governments (Germany, Taiwan, et al).  As a
> concerned voter in the DVUSD, I
> must point out that I cannot support criminal
> behavior and would hope that my
> Governing Board would see fit to do the same and
> ONLY consider alternatives
> as Microsoft is clearly unqualified to meet District
> requirements.
>
> Thank You,
>
> Tom Achtenberg
>
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