NTIA decided to schedule individual meetings this week on its DTV...
NTIA decided to schedule individual meetings this week on its DTV coupon rulemaking (CD Nov 7 p3) because it received several calls from interested parties “seeking to clarify their comments,” an agency spokesman told us. “We wanted to give…
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the public an opportunity to participate as well so that no one could say, ‘Hey, there’s an unfair advantage here,'” the spokesman said. Though NTIA didn’t provide for reply comments in the rulemaking, it publicly has “reserved the right to request information as needed to provide us the most flexibility so that we put together the best program possible,” he said. Discussion about vendor “procurement issues” is off-limits at this week’s meetings, NTIA has said. This includes NTIA’s request for information (RFI) that closed Sept. 15 in which 15 vendors submitted replies. Discussing the RFI is barred because the meetings this week pertain to the rulemaking, and the RFI is a separate govt. procurement program, the spokesman said. It would be “mixing apples and oranges” to allow discussions of the RFI, he said.