FY06 Task Requests

FY07 Task Requests  

Links to Relevant Information:
~Other Transactions Agreement (OTA)
~OTA Mod 0001 on Organizational Conflicts of Interest, etc.*
~Institute Task Award Process
~NextGen Institute Website
~JPDO Website
~FAA Website

Contact Information:

Michael Garvin
michael.r-ctr.garvin@faa.gov
(202) 220-3420

*Additional Information on OCI for Prospective Respondents to Task Requests:
FROM the OTA, Mod 001; ARTICLE 28: POLICY ON ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

The parties recognize that actual or perceived Organizational Conflicts of Interest (“OCIs”) may arise in connection with private sector participation on WGs, CAPs, the CAOB and the IMC. In addition to bidding to perform and fulfilling JPDO task requests, private sector Participants will play an important role, through involvement with WGs, in providing recommendations for the actual tasks assigned by the JPDO. Private sector Participants also will play a critical role, through their membership on different CAPs, in evaluating and awarding contracts for JPDO-sponsored work. Additionally, members of the CAOB and the IMC will have responsibility for evaluating any protests of contract awards, as well as ensuring the contract solicitation, evaluation, and awards process is conducted fairly. Considering the multiple roles and responsibilities that private sector Participants will have in work performed through the NextGen Institute, the parties adopt certain guidelines to minimize and address potential OCIs, as follows:

A. Participation on WGs allows the private sector to develop work proposals and recommendations for the JPDO to consider and evaluate for possible future tasking. By itself such participation on WGs does not create the potential for an OCI, nor does participation on a WG preclude the Participant’s employer or company from bidding on or being awarded a contract solicited through the NextGen Institute for a task request related to the IPT’s recommendation or proposal. Likewise, participation on a WG, or performance of a contract solicited through the NextGen Institute, shall not by itself prevent the Participant’s employer or company from being awarded a related contract solicited by the U.S. government.

B. To mitigate potential OCIs resulting from unequal access to information or influence in JPDO development of a task request, the parties will encourage prompt, early public disclosure of WG recommendations and proposals. Additionally, once a WG has recommended a project to the JPDO, participants shall not be involved in the JPDO’s evaluation process or the JPDO’s development of a WG proposal or recommendation into a formal task request.

C. Participants may not evaluate their own bids to perform JPDO task requests solicited through the NextGen Institute. Accordingly, the members of a particular CAP may not include anyone who is employed by, affiliated with, related to, or otherwise has a direct financial interest in, an entity submitting a contract bid for that CAP’s evaluation.

D. Members of the CAOB may not participate in the review or evaluation of a bid protest if they are employed by, affiliated with, related to, or otherwise have a direct financial interest in, an entity that submitted a winning or losing contract bid on the subject JPDO task request.

E. The IMC’s responsibility for overseeing the policy, recommendations and products of the NextGen Institute, as well as for reviewing the Institute’s contract selection process, generally will not raise an OCI for IMC members.

F. The JPDO and the Institute shall each develop procedures and practices that will 1) identify information that might later give rise to OCI concerns, 2) mitigate or eliminate any resultant OCI (actual or perceived), and 3) foster continued awareness of OCIs and the means and methods to avoid, neutralize and/or remove them.