Katherine
Thank you for your prompt response. I am surprised that at no stage would anyone have seen any reason to question whether a political strategist was the best person to be consulting over running a strategy survey.
"Rogol"
On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Katherine Maher kmaher@wikimedia.org wrote:
Rogol,
They are a vendor we have used in the past to conduct focus groups and run surveys for the annual fundraiser in the five largest English speaking countries. We were satisfied with the quality of their work in the past, so we contacted them again to discuss whether they had appropriate expertise for this instance.
I do not have particular insight as to how we came to work with them in the first place a few years ago. As with many vendors we work with, I expect it was a combination of research, referral, and/or past successful working relationship.
On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 14:11 Rogol Domedonfors domedonfors@gmail.com wrote:
Katherine
At some point it would be interesting to learn how the external consultants were selected. I note, for example, that Lake Associates describes itself as working "side by side with our clients on developing communications and paid media, targeting supporters, and honing the messages that win persuadable voters" and Celinda Lake as "one of the Democratic Party's leading political strategists". On what grounds was this company selected to work on "proposed market research and recommendations on firms or contractors (including Lake) who could conduct desk and/or generative research", which seems very far from their self-proclaimed field of expertise?
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