To clarify, the community voted to allocate the funds under the VDP-17 partnership proposal for the purpose of a feasibility study, and this vote is to ratify what kind of feasibility study it would be, rather than voting for it to be used in some other way. There has already been significant work performed by CFC this year trying to engage with various external management consulting firms (e.g. Guidehouse, with internal pitch competition, BCG, PwC, Ernst & Young, Grant Thornton, Oxford University etc). We would like to clarify the scope of the feasibility study and push forward with a IVPE pilot.
Absent of some evidence of misallocation or inability to execute on the feasibility study, in light of efforts already made by unpaid volunteers within Crowd Funded Cures (a NZ charity), it I think it would be not be commercially reasonable if the community votes that the funds should be used for some other entirely different purpose. If someone in the community would like that, they should file a separate proposal for funding. The purpose of this vote should be to confirm the scope of the feasibility study.