Show NOCs: OIG report: Should you charge extra for NOC tours?

Thu Jan 7 18:31:38 UTC 2021

NOC tours seem like a very 1990's thing, that and 'datacenter tours'.

"Oh you like seeing people at computers and you can't get enough of
that at your home workplace?"
"Oh, you also like cages? me too!! sometimes we put 'racks' in them...
or heavens to gertrude! 'computers'!!"

almost all of this seems like ... really not worth the time for
external people to bother with.
which is maybe why: "Sure, you wanna visit? pay me" (Oh, now you dont'
want to visit? ok, cool!)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:09 PM Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
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> Department of Commerce OIG review of FirstNet request to tour AT&T GNOC
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> https://www.oversight.gov/sites/default/files/oig-reports/DOC/OIG-21-016-I.pdf
> Continued FirstNet Authority Management Attention is Needed to Address
> Control Environment Weaknesses
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> [...]
> FirstNet Authority disagreed that the request for a GNOC tour “constituted
> a request for ‘additional contract services outside the scope of the
> contract.’” In its response, FirstNet Authority stated, “GNOC tours are
> not governed or limited by the [NPSBN] contract as these kinds of tours
> are commonplace for AT&T to provide to outside parties.”  However, we
> found that the contractor only offers a multi-media presentation regarding
> the GNOC at its Corporate Briefing Center. FirstNet Authority requested a
> visit and tour of the GNOC, which is neither included in the contract nor
> offered widely to the public. We reaffirm that the tour was not in the
> contract and could be viewed as exerting indirect pressure for the
> contractor to perform unreimbursed services outside the contract.
> [...]