January 2020
'Other Transactions' Are Government Contracts, and Why It Matters Nathaniel Castellano Summary:
Other Transaction Authority might clear away many burdensome procurement statutes and regulations, but principles of sovereign immunity and separation of powers, along with the pervasive precedents of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, will continue to ensure that doing business with the federal government, even by “Other Transaction,” is never quite the same as doing business in the commercial market. APA Citation: Castellano, N. (2019, Spring). 'Other Transactions' are government contracts, and why it matters. Public Contract Law Journal, 48 (3). Retrieved from https://ssrn. com/abstract=3435062
Procuring Innovation Fred Kaplan Summary:
When DIUx 2.0 got underway, Raj Shah and his team talked to Lauren Schmidt, the program’s “pathways director” responsible for contracts, who told them of a discovery she had made of enormous consequence. Previously, Schmidt had worked in the Army’s acquisition branch, where she had learned of a type of contracting blandly named “other transaction authority.” In anOTA contract, the government and commercial companies can design prototype projects without the onerous rules and regulations of the traditional defense acquisition process. APA Citation: Kaplan, F. (2017). Procuring innovation . MIT Technology Review, 120 (1). Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip&db= a9h&AN=120167138&site=ehost-live
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Defense ARJ, January 2020, Vol. 27No. 1 : 112–116
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