Enron Mail

From:greg.piper@enron.com
To:stephen.abbanat@enron.com
Subject:RE: CGI Proposal Update
Cc:rex.shelby@enron.com, rahil.jafry@enron.com, sally.beck@enron.com,beth.apollo@enron.com
Bcc:rex.shelby@enron.com, rahil.jafry@enron.com, sally.beck@enron.com,beth.apollo@enron.com
Date:Mon, 19 Mar 2001 00:34:00 -0800 (PST)

You need to work for Sally Beck on this. She is responsible for this and is
a Managing Director responsible for all mid and back office, outsourcing or
otherwise. She must approve anything that goes out becuase it will effect
her directly.

Phillipe is also very reluctant to "sell" any systems, especially if we have
to support applications installed behind their firewall. We are probably
fine with most ASP models. You need to meet with Sally as team on this ASAP.

After meeting with Sally, let me know what everyone agreed on. I am in all
day.

Thanks.

GP

-----Original Message-----
From: Abbanat, Stephen
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 4:35 PM
To: Shelby, Rex; Piper, Greg
Subject: RE: CGI Proposal Update

Greg and Rex,

Thanks for the input. I will try to contact Beth Apollo.

Here are a few points I think will help.

? I also read the partnering agreement carefully and sent the revised copy to
Travis McCullough this morning
? At this time I believe our risk is quite low, as we are not officially part
of the bid yet
? I will work very hard to keep everyone informed

The following points protect Enron from significant risk:

1) We were quite careful about what we sent to CSG (reviewed by Beth,
David, Rahul and myself)
2) We did not quote any price for software or services
3) The original RFP asked for a custom solution, which CGI is proposing. We
do not participate in this work.
4) The option to take a different approach (e.g. leverage existing software
from a partner) is being proposed by CSG as an alternative approach, but is
not priced. The option would be explored during a "make versus buy" analysis
within CSG's methodology (during the initial requirements and design phase).
This gives us time to clarify our plans.

I hope these points might mitigate any concerns over the rapid time frame of
the proposal. As the proposal is due on Monday, I am not sure if there is
time to engage a large number of reviewers, but I will ask CSG to copy Rahul
and hopefully he can get appropriate input.

- Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Shelby, Rex
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:55 PM
To: Abbanat, Stephen
Subject: FW: CGI Proposal Update



-----Original Message-----
From: Piper, Greg
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:54 PM
To: Shelby, Rex
Subject: RE: CGI Proposal Update

Who is the lawyer on this?

Can I see a copy of our proposal?

Sally Beck will have to see this first thing Monday morning and should be
included on all e-mail traffic related to this.

Beth Apollo should be in the middle of this as well Beth Perlman and Rahil.

GP

-----Original Message-----
From: Shelby, Rex
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:12 PM
To: Piper, Greg
Cc: Abbanat, Stephen
Subject: FW: CGI Proposal Update

Greg --

FYI. Steve Abbanat has been working with Beth and Rahil to drive our
participation in the CGI proposal. Here's Steve's most recent update:


-----Original Message-----
From: Abbanat, Stephen
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2001 1:06 PM
To: Jafry, Rahil; Berberian, David; Palmer, Mark S.; Perlman, Beth
Cc: Shelby, Rex
Subject: CGI Proposal Update

A brief update:

I spoke with the proposal leads at CGI (Greg Felton and Company) this
morning, and all appears to be on schedule.

? Greg communicated our joint approach to the client and they are very
interested
? Greg received Enron's materials and they are more than sufficient for our
current proposal needs
? I received a draft of CGI's proposed teaming agreement. I made made edits
according to my knowledge of Enron's legal policies. I will forward the
document to legal if CGI accepts the changes
? Greg will complete CGI's initial proposal and forward the draft to Enron,
for review, this weekend and on Monday
? The proposal is due Monday PM to CMS
? Presentations to CMS by potential vendors will occur on March 26th-28th.
We should think about who attends and at what point we might want to use our
internal contacts to approach the client. For now we are waiting, based on
CGI's advice.
? Since the client is in the requirements phase, we should think about how we
might want to support that process, given our approach to delivering systems
solutions

Thanks for everyone's support.
Steve