Chapter
What Are the Results or Case Studies to Date?
Challenge Based Acquisitions
What Are Challenge-Based Acquisitions?
What Are the Implications of Challenge-Based Acquisitions?
What Are the Benefits of Challenge-Based Acquisition?
What Are the Results or Case Studies to Date?
2012 Counter-IED Robotics Challenge
What Are “Other Transactions”?
What Are the Implications of Other Transactions?
What Are the Benefits of Other Transactions?
What Are the Results or Case Studies to Date?
FIRE — Fast, Inexpensive, Restrained, Elegant
What Are the Implications of FIRE?
What Are the Benefits of FIRE?
What Are the Results or Case Studies to Date?
What Are the Implications of Agile Methods?
What Are the Benefits of Agile Methods?
What Are the Results or Case Studies to Date?
Charts: An Overview of the Different
Rapid Technology Prototyping: Finding the Right Innovation from Small Businesses
Using This Innovative Model
Identifying the Problems/Requirements
Engaging the Future End Users
Constraining the Solution Space
Evaluating Proposals and Selecting for Award
Managing Risk and Establishing Expectations
Providing Technical Guidance and Advice
Demonstrating and Testing Prototypes
Rapid Technology Successes
Staged Contracts: Identifying Scalable Innovations for Tailored Government Solutions
The Innovation Funnel: VAi2 Competition
Using This Innovative Model
Identifying the Problems/Requirements
Engaging the Future End Users
Constraining the Solution Space
Evaluating Proposals and Selecting for Award
Managing Risk and Establishing Expectations
Providing Technical Guidance and Advice
Milestone-Based Competitions:
Maximizing Value from Small Businesses
Using This Innovative Model
Identifying the Problems/Requirements
“CLIN 1: Critical Component Demonstration
Engaging the Future End Users
Constraining the Solution Space
Evaluating Proposals and Selecting for Award
Managing Risk and Establishing Expectations
Providing Technical Guidance and Advice
Coordinating Award & Deliverable Hand-off
Milestone Based Competition Successes
Incentive Prizes: Sourcing Solutions from
Benefits of Prizes in the Public Sector
Prize Types and Potential Outcomes
Trends in Incentive Prizes
Using This Innovative Model
Identifying the Problems/Requirements
Engaging the Future End Users
Constraining the Solution Space
Evaluating Responses and Selecting for Award
Managing Risk and Establishing Expectations
Providing Technical Guidance and Advice
Appendix I. Resources for Prize Administrators at Federal Agencies
News Coverage of Public Sector Prizes
OMB and White House Guidance
General Services Administration
NASA Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation
Appendix II. Public-Sector Prize Examples
Appendix III: Template for Annual Report
to White House OSTP & Congress
Challenge Based Acquisitions:
What Are Challenge-Based Acquisitions?
Basic Steps of Challenge-Based Acquisition
Understand Acquisition Objectives
Communicate Capability Needs
Establish an Initial Pool
Conduct the Challenge Event
Evaluate Challenge Results
Reduce the Challenger Pool
Decompose Complex Requirements Into Challenges
Generalize User Experience and Needs then Communicate Them to Industry
Find Unclassified Analogues to Classified Situations
Design and Execute Concrete Challenge Apparatus
Perform Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis of Challenge Results
Cooperate with Traditional and Non-Traditional Entities
Dedicate Independent Research and Development (IR&D) Funding
Negotiate Intellectual Property Licenses
2012 Counter-IED Robotics Challenge
Ultra-Light Reconnaissance Robot Challenge
Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicles
Other Transactions: For Scientific
Research, Technology Development,
Conditions for Use of OT’s
Outreach and Solicitation
Evaluation, Selection, and Award of Proposals
Case Studies of Selected OTs
NASA: Joint Endeavor Agreements
DARPA: Joint Unmanned Combat Air Systems (JUCAS)
NGA: Chemical, Biological and Radiological Technology Alliance (CBRTA)
DOD: Hummingbird Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
DOD: Dual-Use and Commercial Operations and Support Savings Initiative (COSSI)
DHS: BioAgent Autonomous Network Detector (BAND) Program
Chapter 2: Competition in Federal Contracting: A Legal Overview
Contracts Not Subject to CICA
Contracts Subject to CICA
Full and Open Competition Defined
Competitive Procedures Resulting in Full and Open Competition
“Full and Open Competition After Exclusion of Sources”
Circumstances Permitting Other Than Full and Open Competition
Justifications & Approvals
“Special Simplified Procedures for Small Purchases”
Other Competition Requirements
Competition Requirements for Task
and Delivery Order Contracts
Innovative Federal Contracting: Case Studies
( Government Procedures and Operations )
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