the table below.)
Funds recouped during FY XXXX (Fill in the appropriate fiscal year)
Agreement number: Fiscal Year of Agreement: Dollar amount returned in FY XXXX
N66604-99-9-3006 1999 $20,000
MDA972-95-9-0051 1995 $8,675
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GUIDELINES TO ASSIST IN ANSWERING PART I QUESTIONS
Extent the other transaction has contributed to a broadening of the technology and industrial base available for meeting DoD needs: (Focus on how use of an other transaction makes a difference. Consider:)
• Did the use of the OT result in nontraditional defense contractors participating to a significant extent in the prototype project that would not otherwise have participated in the project? If so:
• Identify the nontraditional defense contractors and explain why they would not typically participate if a procurement contract was used? For example, are they business units that normally accept no business with the government, that do business only through OTs or contracts for commercial items, or that limit their volume of Federal contracts to avoid a threshold at which they would have to comply with cost accounting standards or some other government requirement?
• Were there provisions of the OT or features of the award process that enabled their participation? If so, explain specifically what they were.
• What are the significant contributions expected as a result of the nontraditional defense contractor's
participation (e.g., supplying new key technology or products, accomplishing a significant amount of the effort, or in some other way causing a material reduction in the cost or schedule or increase in performance. Please be specific and explain how this contributes to a broadening of the technology and industrial base available to DoD?
• Did the Department gain access to technology areas or commercial products that would not be possible under a procurement contract? If so, identify these areas and explain how the use of the OT facilitated the access. • Are there any other benefits of the use of the OT that you perceive helped the Department broaden the
technology or industrial base available to DoD? If so, wha t were they, how do they help meet defense objectives, what features of the OT or award process enable us to realize them and why could they not have been realized using a procurement contract? Please be specific.
Extent the other transaction has fostered within the technology and industrial base new relationships and
practices that support the national security of the United States: (Focus on what is different because we are
able to use an other transaction. Consider:)
• Was OTA used in a circumstance where at least one third of the total funds of the prototype project are provided by the non-federal parties to the agreement? If so, state that this was the reason the authority was used and identify the percentage of funds being provided by non-federal parties to the agreement.
• Was use of OTA based on an SPE determination that exceptional circumstances justify the use of an OT that provides for innovative business arrangements or structures that would not be feasible or appropriate under a procurement contract? If so, state this is the reason the authority was used and fully describe the innovative business arrangements or structures, the associated benefits, and explain why they would not be feasible or appropriate under a procurement contract.
• Did the use of the OT result in the establishment of new relationships between the government and industry or among for-profit business units, among business units of the same firm, or between business units and nonprofit performers that will help us get better technology in the future? If so:
• Explain the nature of the new relationships.
• Explain why it is believed that these new relationships will help us get better technology in the future. • Were there provisions of the OT or features of the award process that enabled the creation of the new
relationships? If so, explain specifically what they were and why these relationships could not have been created using a procurement contract.
• Did the use of the OT permit traditional government contractors to use new business practices in the execution of the prototype project that will help DoD get better technology, get new technology more quickly, or get it less expensively? If so:
• Who are those contractors and what are the new business practices?
• What are the specific benefits expected from the use of these new practices?
• Were there provisions of the OT or features of the award process that enabled the use of these new practices? If so, specifically what are they and why these practices could not have been used if the award
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had been made using a procurement contract?
Other benefits to the DoD of the use of this agreement: (Are there any other benefits associated with the use of
an OT beyond those addressed in the previous questions? If so:)
• What are those benefits? How will they help meet defense objectives?
• Where there provisions of the OT or features of the award process that attributed to these benefits? If so, specifically what are they and why these benefits could not be achieved with a procurement contract?
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