Richard: There is more I&A after the pilot. Note the word "preliminary" below (from Fallon at CC). TAVA probably investigates for well-known red flags during the pilot; that's enough for a preliminary report. The next phase would be a complete I&A.
Wade
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Many of our customers have started with a pilot in order to evaluate
their Y2K exposure. The pilot usually includes inventory and preliminary
analysis, and may involve anywhere from one to 20 sites. The typical
cost is approximately 100,000 per site, however, the range has been from
60,000 to 1 million.
For example, a small low-tech consumer products plant may be 60,000
whereas a pharmaceutical campus may be $1 million. At the end of the
pilot, customers are still not able to accurately estimate their
exposure.
However, at the end of the pilot there is empirical evidence of a
sizable problem, a high probability of production outages, and if an
outage occurs, a major business exposure.
At this point, which is where TAVA is today on our earlier pilots, we
usually move into full assessment, conversion planning, and remediation
of the pilot group and negotiations for the full-scale program.
Conservatively, a full-scale program per-site costs could be greater
than eight times the cost per site for the pilot. So let's follow the
money here. |
