<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">Sounds like this is a NASA specific thing, in which case, I guess someone at NASA would need to step up.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I’m afraid I know no pythonistas at NASA. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">But I’ll poke around NOAA to see if there’s anything similar.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">-CHB</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Apr 25, 2019, at 1:04 PM, Ralf Gommers <<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 20, 2019 at 12:41 PM Ralf Gommers <<a href="mailto:ralf.gommers@gmail.com">ralf.gommers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 10:03 PM Joe Harrington <<a href="mailto:jh@physics.ucf.edu" target="_blank">jh@physics.ucf.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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3. There's such a thing as a share-in-savings contract at NASA, in which <br>
you calculate a savings, such as from avoided costs of licensing IDL or <br>
Matlab, and say you'll develop a replacement for that product that costs <br>
less, in exchange for a portion of the savings. These are rare and few <br>
people know about them, but one presenter to the committee did discuss <br>
them and thought they'd be appropriate. I've always felt that we could <br>
get a chunk of change this way, and was surprised to find that the <br>
approach exists and has a name. About 3 of 4 people I talk to at NASA <br>
have no idea this even exists, though, and I haven't pursued it to its <br>
logical end to see if it's viable.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I've heard of these. Definitely worth looking into.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It seems to be hard to find any information about these share-in-savings contracts. The closest thing I found is this: <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/22/2018-13463/nasa-federal-acquisition-regulation-supplement-removal-of-reference-to-the-shared-savings-policy-and">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/06/22/2018-13463/nasa-federal-acquisition-regulation-supplement-removal-of-reference-to-the-shared-savings-policy-and</a></div><div><br></div><div>It is called "Shared Savings" there, and was replaced last year by something called "Value Engineering Change Proposal". If anyone can comment on whether that's the same thing as Joe meant and whether this is worth following up on, that would be very helpful.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div>Ralf</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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