Thanks all for going through the providers individually to make a decision! Since program managers are accountable to the DAO and expected to make proposals for carrying forward the program, we want them to be responsive and engaging with the DAO directly.
Some quick clarifications;
We do not expect the committee to select more than 8 providers (it’ll likely be far less than even this higher end number). so all program manager applicants with variable pricing have capped it at 8, selecting more than this would not increase their costs. providing this additional detail since it got left out of snapshot.
For what its worth, the committee will be dissolving itself after recommendations are made and passed by the DAO. Only after the committees dissolution would the program manager role come into existence to take charge.
overall we were hard pressed to come up with actual conflicts between being both on the committee and a program manager. The most we could come up with in theory is they select providers that are easier to manage for reducing their monitoring cost, which didn’t feel too meaningful. Conflict of interest is also tempered by them being only 1 out of 5 voices. they have also declared their conflicts in the shortlist we prepared