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[Gustaaf Brooijmans <gusbroo AT nevis.columbia.edu>]

Hello all,

In case this is buried in your long week-end emails: please make sure to 
complete by Thursday.

Thx

Gustaaf

On 7/5/19 10:36 AM, Gustaaf Brooijmans wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> So-called "phase-1" of the ICE (Independent Cost Estimate) is now coming 
> to a close.  After some struggles, we agreed that the BOEs were too 
> complex and that the starting point for the ICE would be a master 
> spreadsheet listing the documents used to
> a) explain what the deliverable is, and
> b) obtain quotes
>
> Attached is the master sheet, which we need to send to NSF fully filled 
> out on July 15.  Therefore, we need you to return it by *COB Thursday 
> July 11*.
>
> The sheet is largely self-explanatory, but the Tile Main Board can serve 
> as an example.  What you need to do is
>
> 1) Check that I got all the relevant lines, i.e. all the lines that 
> include material costs relevant to deliverable construction
>
> 2) Fill out columns H to Q.  In many cases I put in educated guesses, 
> these may be wrong.  A few specific comments:
>   *J: this is an index to indicate if multiple payments correspond to a 
> single quote (eg Tile Main Board assembly batches)
>   *M: make sure you have these documents: in a few more weeks we'll need 
> to provide them so they can get quotes.  Looking through the packages 
> put together for our initial attempt, I did not always see gerber files 
> where I expected them)
>   *O: to my knowledge, only ASICs made under the CERN frame contract 
> only have one possible vendor, but that may be incorrect.
>   *P: indicate here if you applied any kind of scaling, eg because you 
> used a different board's gerber to get a quote
>   *Q is about documentation that explains the deliverable, but is not 
> used in obtaining quotes.
>
> Any questions, let us know.
>
> Best,
>
> Gustaaf
>
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