2023年7月24日 · The Department of Defense updated its guidance on “other transaction” agreements, or “OTs,”[1] an increasingly popular contracting authority not subject to the FAR or most procurement laws that accounted for more than $37 billion in defense spending from 2019 through 2021.[2] Although the new Other Transactions Guide, Version 2.0 (“OT Guide”), …

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2022年8月16日 · The OT Prototype Project. The Army needed upgraded Aviation Ground Power Units (“AGPUs”) to service military helicopters. To accomplish the AGPU upgrade, the Army selected an OT agreement as the purchasing vehicle. The Army awarded an OT to a consortium, which issued a Request for Enhanced White papers for the AGPU upgrade prototype project ...

2024年7月18日 · Other Transactions Guide for Prototype Projects, Version 1.2.0 at 1-2 (Jan. 2017); see also USD (AT&L), “Other Transactions” (OT) Guide for Prototype Projects § C1.6 (Dec. 21, 2000) (“OT prototype authority may be used only to carry out prototype projects that are directly relevant to weapons or weapon systems proposed to be acquired or ...

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2020年2月19日 · Although there is great deal being written these days about DOD’s increasing use of Other Transactions “OTs”, no one explains how you actually negotiate OT terms and conditions, particularly the intellectual property clauses that are …

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2016年5月16日 · GAO found this less persuasive. It rejected Oracle’s dictionary definition, which would have excluded the OTA’s subject matter for being commercial in nature, and opted instead for DoD’s definition in its Other Transactions (OT) Guide for Prototype Projects. In the absence of a clear statutory definition, GAO said it will defer to an ...

2021年10月5日 · The distinction between that OTA award and the one in SpaceX, the District of Arizona reasoned, was that the OTA awarded in MD Helicopters provided for the award of a follow-on procurement contract without further competition, pursuant to DoD’s unique OT statutory authority in 10 U.S.C. § 2371b(f).