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USSOCOM/SOFWERX OT

16 July Collaboration Event Brief Spencer Baker

Director of Acquisitions Agility, SOF AT&L 1

Problem/Goal

• Problem: USSOCOM desires an increased OT Capacity.
• Goal: Determine if an augmented OT Capability for USSOCOM is viable,

and if so, how would it be implemented?

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Background

• There are currently 29 OTA consortiums across the DoD and 3 Non-DoD

sponsored consortiums (32 total). 28 of the 32 are managed by third party OT consortium managers who assist with competing and awarding OT contracts.

• SOFWERX already has an established ecosystem and the processes

necessary to rapidly compete and help select USSOCOM desired

• capabilities. These could subsequently be handed to an OT

management firm for assistance with OT award and management.

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The USSOCOM SOFWERX OT Process would follow two Lines of Effort (LOE). The two LOE are defined within this process and are clearly delineated in both partnership and purpose. LOE 1: Fair and Open Competition, and Selection.  60-100 days depending on the maturity of the requirement or technology end state. This LOE follows the existing USSOCOM/SOFWERX business rules to ensure fair and open competition as part of its current events programming.  Upon final selection of desired awardees, all parties involved in LOE 2 will be notified of the outcome to ensure LOE 2 can begin immediately. LOE 2: OT Award & Management via “bolted on” provider. The LOE 2 desired timelines as well as the roles and responsibilities are listed below. Green = Government, Purple = OT Manager, Blue = Awardee 1. Day 0 – USSOCOM SOF AT&L provides project SOW to OT Developer. 2. Day 1 – OT Manager sends request and notification to the awardee. 3. Days 2 thru 21 – The awardee submits response to OT Manager. 4. Days 22 thru 23 – OT Manager negotiates with the awardee and prepares the cost analysis. 5. Day 24 – OT Manager sends cost realism form and final SOW to USSOCOM Tech Lead 6. Days 25 thru 28 – USSOCOM SOF AT&L Tech Lead provides cost realism and SOW concurrence 7. Day 29 – OT Manager sends request for Tech Direction to USSOCOM SOF AT&L. 8. Days 30 thru 44 – USSOCOM SOF AT&L makes a fair and reasonable determination and obtains a Legal approval. 9. Day 45 – USSOCOM SOF AT&L issues a technical direction letter to the OT Manager.

• 10. Day 46 – OT Manager issues project agreement to awardee.
• 11. Day 47 thru 48 – The project is awarded.

Potential USSOCOM/SWX OT Process

107-147 Days to Compete, Select, and Award Contracts

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Discussion Guides

• Would an OT manager help USSOCOM accelerate capability?
• Should an OT manager be contracted directly through USSOCOM or be conducted via B2B agreement with

SOFWERX?

• Should an OT manager manage the projects after award, or should SOFWERX or SOCOM manage them?
• Does the OT manager require a presence locally?
• Could an OT use tax help pay for the capability?
• Should the OT conduct both prototyping and production, or just higher TRL production/close to production

contracts?

• Is the timeline of 1-48 days for the OT development & award accurate, or are there steps and time missing?
• Should we limit the number of OT contracts in the trial?
• Should a single agreements officer be the signator, or does USSOCOM open it’s use up to all AO’s?
• Should there be a limit on the award amount during any trial?
• Should we accept external (non MFP-11) funds as part of the trial?
• Should there be a single Legal point of entry for all the OT’s?

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