NEW CAPABILITIES AND CONCEPTS


WIN AN AWARD OR TRY AGAIN


Submissions to the Tradewind Solutions Marketplace are assessed by a team of experts and then either approved as “awardable” to government clients who can log in and browse solutions, or marked “not awardable” and given feedback and the opportunity to try again. (Graphic by Tradewind)


he still finds is astonishing that these solutions are being submit- ted entirely online via short-form video. “In my government career, I was the technical team manager for a major combat vehicle development program. Tat submission and evaluation lasted for one full year. Te amount of paper we had was astound- ing—proposals were delivered by trailer truck,” he recalled. “Of course, we’re not doing major system development programs with the marketplace, but we are getting to novel and highly advanced technology in a very streamlined, efficient way.”


More recently, he worked as a consortium manager for SOSSEC Inc., the consortium administrator for the Program Execu- tive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) Cyber Operations Broad Responsive Agreement (COBRA)


other-transaction agreement (OTA). “We made a pact in the early days of the COBRA OTA that we were going to throw the rulebook away and look at new ways of doing things,” he said. “I’ve worked about 12 or 13 OTAs for a variety of different agencies, and the COBRA OTA is probably the most agile one that I’ve worked on, and we did things within that OTA that I consider to be revolutionary. We brought a lot of those same concepts into the Tradewind Solutions Marketplace. I think the marketplace is the ultimate manifestation of that goal we had, in terms of making things simple.”


Evangelista, who is now a DOD leader on novel contracting approaches and the OTA, was also at PEO EIS during the early days of the COBRA OTA, having moved to that role from


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