Greg, Just as a follow up to our conversation, I have serious concerns about the estate's ability to service IT requests. The number of people that remain in the estate, that understand the gas and power systems, is limited (and we're receiving resignations now). With this in mind, I would like to have the ability to outsource the IT department (applications, infrastructure) and potentially the back office staff to a consulting company (potentially Accenture or CGEY). We would need to move the estate employees into this company and incentivize them to stay. The consulting company could then supplement the staff and the Enron estate employees could now have a career path at the consulting company. To make this deal attractive, the consulting company would like to have the ability to create a services company and offer IT and fulfillment and processing services to other companies. By the way, this could be done for other commodities outside gas and power. The deal would have to include royalty payments to the estate for each additional services agreement. The intent is to make the services company into a thriving business. We would also want to sell Commodity Logic (IP included) to round out the services offering. We could consider selling the IP to our EGM and EIM systems as well. All in all, the intent is to bring value to the estate and support the estate while the businesses wind down or start up. We must make sure that the NETCO agreement allows the estate to license the gas and power software in some capacity and continue to develop the applications. As an aside, the estate cannot perform on the Bridgeline or AEP deals. There are not enough resources that fully understand the system, therefore, we cannot maintain a fully operational production quality system. These deals must either be moved to NETCO or we need to find another alternative (the above referenced services company or selling the software to AEP and Bridgeline). I know this is long winded, but I needed to get these points down on paper. I am on vacation next week, but can be reached on my cell phone at 713-240-0919 or at my house in Kiawah at 843-768-6651. I'll also have my Blackberry but reception is poor on the island! Have a great holiday. Beth
Answer: IT Plans for Estate
Mark, Attached are the confirms for both the ECS purchase and the ECT purchase. Please take one last look. If OK I will forward the ECS purchase to Porter and Hedges. The ECT confirms still have the TW West Texas Pool as being the point at which ECT takes title.
Answer: Confirms
Brent: In order to track the proliferation of electronic trading agreements, licensing/software agreements and electronic platforms, we (Sam, Stephanie and me) have established a "process" which includes the following: 1. sending immediate email to Ted Murphy, legal and credit (Bradford) from the commercial group identifying the Enron party needing the agreement, and necessity for agreement 2. depending on the type of agreement, credit may or may not need to get involved. 3. the paralegals enter the agreement onto Lotus Notes so that we can track the process. 4. upon execution, a copy of the agreement is kept in a red file (near Sam's desk), a copy is sent to Ted Murphy, and the original is sent to global contracts. To my knowledge, we have not established a procedure for tracking passwords (to the extent required/changed). I understand that Jason is handling three ENA weather license agreements for you (Risk Management Solutions,Inc., Foresight Weather LLC and Air Worldwide Weather). Jason has (or will have) access to Lotus Notes to enter his comments. Thanks. Sara
Answer: Electronic Trading Agreements
Here's a first stab at the LOI. I just guessed on the attachment. I have a couple of questions: Any thought as to how we get/split money (other than the obvious up side for us)? Do we want to work toward a "Project Development Agreement" which will set forth the basis for how we develop projects on a project-by-project basis? Or do you envision a different next step? Talk to you soon, Kay
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NJNG LOI/MOU/LOU/HOA