The legal side of procurement with Alexander Canizares
Alexander Canizares joined me on the Acquisition Talk podcast to discuss the legal side of the acquisition system. He is a senior counsel at Perkins-Coie, […]
OTA
Massive ABMS contract to an unknown 5-person firm [UPDATED]
Under the $950,000,000 award ceiling, Hellebore will support the maturation, demonstration, and proliferation of capability across platforms and domains to enable Joint All Domain Command […]
OTAs twice as big as SBIRs, but how are they being used?
In 2018 and 2019, $11.4 billion was spent through [Other Transactions Authority] OTAs, over twice as much as was spent on [Small Business Innovation Research] […]
Why are OTAs plagued by references to FAR clauses?
One of the biggest failures of FAR 12 [commercial] contracting has been DoD’s unwillingness to proactively use these commercial of a type procedures because of […]
Air Force pitch day, what’s next?
On March 6-7, we held our inaugural Air Force Pitch Day in New York. We invited small businesses from across the country to pitch their […]
Pitch an AI project in 99 words
The Pentagon’s year-old Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is giving all comers until July 26th to submit proposals for cyber and information warfare. Companies whose ideas catch JAIC’s eye […]
Are OTA contracts being competed?
A number of nontraditional companies told CRS that they are more likely to work with DOD because of the department’s other transaction authorities. Despite these […]
Will DIU finally make contract awards in 60 days?
The Defense Innovation Unit (DIU), an agency created in 2015 to accelerate the adoption of commercial technology to solve national security problems, is trying to […]
Sunday Links
“We are going to invert that approach and take a clean sheet of paper and write the absolute bare minimum to be compliant in 5000.02, […]