ran@ho95b.UUCP (RANeinast) (04/18/85)
Are there any existing techniques or programs for doing the following:
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You have many possible government
projects you could bid on. You know what the staffing
requirement vs time would be if you won each one.
You know how many people you'll have available
(or could hire) over the entire time period.
You know the probability that you'll win each one
(roughly). You also know that if you (somehow) won
all the contracts, you'd be in deep trouble,
because you wouldn't have enough people.
[The real concern here is for the R&D that must be done;
staffing up for R&D is a bit harder (slower) than for manufacturing.]
The question is: how do you decide which ones to bid on?
You want to bid on as many as possible without getting in
over your head. Note that this goes beyond the standard
PERT-type stuff of simple Project Management.
As you may know, AT&T is starting to get into the government
bidding area. Do any of you out there who've been doing
it a long time (Boeing, GE, etc) use anything like the above?
Everybody I've talked to just says, "We bid on everything we
can get our hands on."
Note that I'm not looking for anything proprietary. At this
stage, I'm interested in some pointers to *published* work
that addresses the question. If it ever gets to the stage
of having to do it myself, I already have a bunch of ideas
(and help) on how to do it.
Many thanks.
--
". . . and shun the frumious Bandersnatch."
Robert Neinast (ihnp4!ho95b!ran)
AT&T-Bell Labs