ALTERNATIVE ACQUISITION
SPEED BY CONSORTIUM
Using consortia, the government can more quickly and simply access innovative, nontraditional defense contractors, something that's much more difficult outside of the consortium other-transaction authority model. (Graphic by USAASC)
TECH TEAM
What often happens with discussions among consortium companies are teaming arrangements, Tuohy said. ATI holds collaborative meetings and facilitates conversa- tions among businesses with different capabilities so that they can leverage each other's strengths. As a service to consortium members, ATI “will hold something akin to speed dating” to pair up companies. During these sessions, “big integrating contractors get to listen to the smaller, innovative contractors and decide who they can team up with to solve the problem.” That's a benefit for the contractors and for the government.
When agreements are made, Tuohy said, another part of ATI’s work on behalf of its client businesses is to provide back-office functions. “Once the award is made, ATI does the accounting, they receive the payments from the government, [and] they pay the bills that are presented by the teams.” ATI has the skills and knowledge to handle government systems so that the “nontraditionals don't
have to worry about that. They just bill us the normal way they bill anybody, and we keep track of deliverables, mile- stones, we do reporting.”
That reporting is every bit as exhaustive and transparent as with any other kind of contracting. “There is every bit as much transparency in [other-transaction] contracts as there is in any other contract, it’s just that the government hasn't quite figured out how to disseminate that informa- tion amongst themselves,” Tuohy said.
At the end of an other-transaction contract, Tuohy said, the government closes them out just like any other. ATI’s services to its consortia include making sure everything— paperwork, deliverables—gets where it’s supposed to be and making sure that, if there’s classified or sensitive work, it gets handled properly.
—STEVE STARK
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