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To Help Hook Silicon Valley, DHS Establishes New Transaction Mechanism

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, December 14th, 2015

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) this month created a new “innovation framework” to make it easier for start-up companies and non-traditional government contractors to work with the department and to speed the acquisition of potential solutions, according to a notice DHS published in the FedBizOpps.gov.The innovation framework will use a flexible industry engagement mechanism called an Other Transaction Solicitation (OTS) “to promote competition among non-traditional government contractors, with a streamlined approach to address specific needs to the Homeland Security,”…

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