<x-flowed>On 6/19/06, Rob Richie <rr@fairvote.org> wrote:

 * Alameda County putting IRV readiness into contract ("$350,000 that
Sequoia wants for developing instant runoff voting for Berkeley and other
cities.")

http://www.insidebayarea.com/dailyreview/localnews/ci_3917657

Unfortunately, the contract doesn't state the terms of the IRV
development... it just says that the county and the vendor will work
to develop such a functionality.  Also, the contract was approved by
the Board of Supervisors with the condition that an independent
security evaluation be performed before purchase.

text of acting RoV's recommendation and the resolutions approving of
the contract
<http://www.josephhall.org/tmp/alameda_co_bos_minord-20060608.pdf>

The contract itself:
<http://www.josephhall.org/tmp/AlamedaCountyCA_PurchaseAgreement_20060602.pdf>

PS: We've got a lot of vendor/jurisdiction contracts for voting
systems procurements... if anyone  out there has publicly-available
(non-confidential) contracts between voting systems vendors and state
or local election officials, we'd be interested in seeing them.  We'll
probably have a web-based contract library of sorts to support a
project that we are doing.