21-02-2019, 11:08 AM
The WIA has released its Approach To Market document - the tender for the amateur radio examinations & callsign management.
The WIA news page link is here : https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2.../index.php
Of interest is the detail in the document provided there : https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2...dacted.pdf
My observations:
Following comments about what an alternative provider, even the AMC, might charge for assessments, the detail in the WIA Tender on P56 has what their anticipated fees would have been - this is attached in an image (below) since I couldn't extract just the text from their PDF.
I waded through most of the 104 pages and it is mostly-dry and heavy reading. I am unsure as to whether the utilisation of ATEAL to fulfil the requirements for an RTO was the correct direction for the WIA to contemplate. Given that ATEAL does not currently exist and would take time, a lot of money that would probably have to come from the WIA, and quite a lot of effort to create and put in place physically. Then comes the training requirements, the certifications,......
What is ATEAL : read page 14 of the ATM document, it starts there.
Is ATEAL a core WIA business ? No.
It would have made more sense to continue with Silvertrain or even start up with a different already-existing RTO - and that might have made the difference between losing and winning the Tender since the entity and mechanisms were already in place ( rather than having ATEAL happening sometime along a vague 2019 timeline ).
It would have been interesting to compare the documents that were used in 2008/2009 to win the previous Tender against this submission. Unlikely to be available to us though it might have been successful with minor updating put in place.
Yes, I am an old fogey but the newer minds that are currently driving the WIA obviously read something wrongly - they didn't win the Tender with their approach. They might be highly qualified with lots of letters after their names but that doesn't mean that they have all the answers. Obviously.
Flame suit is now on and set to MAX protection.
Doug VK4ADC
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The WIA news page link is here : https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2.../index.php
Of interest is the detail in the document provided there : https://www.wia.org.au/newsevents/news/2...dacted.pdf
My observations:
Following comments about what an alternative provider, even the AMC, might charge for assessments, the detail in the WIA Tender on P56 has what their anticipated fees would have been - this is attached in an image (below) since I couldn't extract just the text from their PDF.
I waded through most of the 104 pages and it is mostly-dry and heavy reading. I am unsure as to whether the utilisation of ATEAL to fulfil the requirements for an RTO was the correct direction for the WIA to contemplate. Given that ATEAL does not currently exist and would take time, a lot of money that would probably have to come from the WIA, and quite a lot of effort to create and put in place physically. Then comes the training requirements, the certifications,......
What is ATEAL : read page 14 of the ATM document, it starts there.
Is ATEAL a core WIA business ? No.
It would have made more sense to continue with Silvertrain or even start up with a different already-existing RTO - and that might have made the difference between losing and winning the Tender since the entity and mechanisms were already in place ( rather than having ATEAL happening sometime along a vague 2019 timeline ).
It would have been interesting to compare the documents that were used in 2008/2009 to win the previous Tender against this submission. Unlikely to be available to us though it might have been successful with minor updating put in place.
Yes, I am an old fogey but the newer minds that are currently driving the WIA obviously read something wrongly - they didn't win the Tender with their approach. They might be highly qualified with lots of letters after their names but that doesn't mean that they have all the answers. Obviously.
Flame suit is now on and set to MAX protection.
Doug VK4ADC
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