ARMY AL&T
FIGURE 1
Blanket Purchase Agreement
Non-FAR FAR-Based
CRADA (15 USC 3710a) PIA (15 USC 3715) TIA (32 CFR Part 37)
Procurement for Experiments (10 USC 2373)
Research (10 USC 2371) Prototype (10 USC 2371B)
KEY
CRADA - Cooperative research and development agreement Defense CSO - Defense Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot Program FAR - Federal Acquisition Regulation IDIQ - Indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity NDAA - National Defense Authorization Act PIA - Partnership intermediary agreement R&D - Research and development
SBIR - Small Business Innovation Research Program STTR - Small Business Technology Transfer Program TIA - Technology investment agreement USC - U.S. Code
A WEALTH OF CHOICES
DAU’s contracting cone allows users to learn about FAR and non-FAR contract strategies for a variety of contracting scenarios and compare up to three different approaches. The goal is to increase visibility for new and lesser-known options. (Images courtesy of DAU)
Agreements (FAR 16.7)
Small
business (FAR 19)
Direct 8a Other transactions (FAR 16.5) IDIQ R&D agreements
Federal Supply Schedule (FAR 8.4)
Simplified (FAR 13)
Blanket purchase agreement Task order and delivery order Commercial Items (FAR 12)
Blanket purchase agreement Purchase order
Micro purchase Negotiated Contracts (FAR 15)
Multiple award Single award
Letter Contract (FAR 16.603) Basic agreement
Basic ordering agreement Set-aside
Broad agency announcement (FAR 35.016) SBIR/STTR (15 USC 637c) Defense CSO pilot (Section 879, NDAA for FY 2017)
IT’S ALL ABOUT OPTIONS Te acquisition digital prototype was driven by Ben FitzGerald and others in the OUSD(A&S). (FitzGerald has since left the Pentagon for a private business opportunity.) FitzGerald is a former senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and Senate Armed Services Committee staffer who was brought to the Pentagon in December 2017 by the Hon. Ellen M. Lord, the USD(A&S), to oversee the splitting of the Office of the Under- secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics into the USD(A&S) and the USD for Research and Engineer- ing. As a Senate staffer, FitzGerald helped write a requirement in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal
Year 2018 for “digitized acquisition policy.” Te prototype on the DAU website is an outgrowth of that policy.
“One of the things that we are attempting to do as we imple- ment acquisition reforms is to provide a more flexible acquisition framework, which is where we’ve come up with this concept of an adaptive acquisition framework that allows programs to apply the right tools, the right acquisition policy, the right contracting tool, to the program that they are running. Because we recog- nize that there’s a wide variety of programs and multiple valid ways to deliver those programs,” FitzGerald told Army AL&T in December. “So in seeking to do that in terms of seeking to
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