Agreements made outside the FAR, on the same record as every contract
An other transaction is an agreement that is not a procurement contract, a grant or a cooperative agreement, so the FAR does not govern it. The Department of Defense makes them for research, for prototypes and for the production that can follow a prototype. USAspending publishes none of them. SAM.gov's contract award records do, and LastAwarded reads them from there and marks each one on its award.
Only other transactions, or leave them out
Awards and Recompetes, under Intelligence in the menu, each have a filter called Other transactions: include them, only them, or leave them out. The same filter narrows a company's awards and a buying office's awards, and One market can be asked with it, so the read of a code or an office can be made of other transactions alone.
An award that is one carries a tag on its row and on its page. Its page says which kind it is, an agreement, an order or an IDV, the type as SAM.gov gives it, the type of agreement where the record states one, and what an other transaction is, with the law behind it.
- Only them, or leave them out, on Awards and Recompetes
- A tag on every row and on the award's own page
- The same filter in One market, in exports and in the API
- While the history is still being read, a filtered list says so and says how many are on file so far
Who holds them, and which offices make them
A company that holds other transactions carries a card on its page: how many, what they came to, the latest one signed, and how many are agreements, orders and IDVs. Each figure opens the list behind it.
A buying office's page says whether it awards other transactions: how many are on record, what they came to and when the latest was signed. Customer intelligence marks an office that awards them, because an office that uses them is a door a company with a prototype can walk through.
- Before a prototype pursuit, see who already holds this office's other transactions
- An office with none on record says so once the history is read
- A company's card is drawn only when it holds some
who already passes work down in your code from subaward reporting, filed by the prime
What an other transaction is
The FAR governs procurement contracts. An other transaction is made under an authority of its own instead. The Department of Defense makes them under 10 U.S.C. 4021 for research and under 10 U.S.C. 4022 for prototype projects, and 4022 also lets a prototype project that was completed successfully be followed by production without new competitive procedures, under the conditions it sets. Other agencies hold authorities of their own.
Because the FAR does not govern them, their terms are negotiated, and a consortium often stands between the agency and the companies doing the work. The course on other transactions, among the courses under Knowledge in the app, covers how they are made and how a prototype becomes production.
Where they come from
USAspending, the record most award data is read from, carries no other transactions at all. SAM.gov's contract award records do, and say which kind each one is. So they are read from there: each new one as the daily read of SAM.gov's contract awards brings it in, and the history a month at a time, newest first, back to FY2008.
They are kept as awards, beside every other award, so a code, an office or a company shows them with everything else, and the filter can take them out. A total read from USAspending alone leaves them out, which is why the same office can look smaller there than here.
Where it stops
Other transactions are shown as SAM.gov's contract award records report them, and an agreement that was never reported there is not here. The history is read in the background, so until it is read whole a list filtered to them says how many are on file so far. What an agreement obliges you to do is in its own terms, which are not published, and nothing here is legal advice.
Where it is in the app
The Other transactions filter is on Awards and Recompetes, under Intelligence in the menu, on One market, and on a company's and a buying office's awards. Intelligence is the part of LastAwarded that finds the market, one of the eight parts.
Related
- Award historyEvery award, with other transactions among them.
- Recompete radarWhat ends soon, with or without them.
- Incumbent profilesThe company page the card sits on.
- Buyer profilesThe office page that says whether it makes them.
- Exports and APIThe same filter, in a file or a request.
- Data and sources NewEvery source the record is read from.
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