{"id":27687,"date":"2022-02-18T15:17:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/?page_id=27687"},"modified":"2022-02-18T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T20:17:29","slug":"04-ams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/04-ams\/","title":{"rendered":"AMS-Based Contracting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-two\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:31px;margin-left:0px;\"><h2 class=\"title-heading-left\" style=\"margin:0;\">AMS-Based Contracting<\/h2><span class=\"awb-title-spacer\"><\/span><div class=\"title-sep-container\"><div class=\"title-sep sep-double sep-solid\" style=\"border-color:#e0dede;\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>In 1996, the Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) began using the <a href=\"http:\/\/fast.faa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Acquisition Management System<\/a> (AMS) rather than the FAR.\u00a0\u00a0The AMS has its statutory roots in 49 USC 40110(d), which expressly exempts the FAA from the Competition in Contracting Act, the Small Business Act, the FAR, and related statutes.\u00a0<em>\u00a0Id<\/em>. at 40110(d)(2). \u00a0Particularly important to this guide is the statutory requirement that the AMS must provide for “the resolution of bid protests and contract disputes . . .\u00a0using consensual alternative dispute resolution techniques to the maximum extent practicable.” \u00a0<em>Id.<\/em> at\u00a040110(d)(1)(B).<\/p>\n<p>Significant differences between the FAR and the AMS include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The AMS is a policy that governs the internal administration of the FAA rather than a regulation.<\/li>\n<li>The AMS relies heavily on the proper exercise of discretion by contracting personnel.<\/li>\n<li>The AMS provides for essentially two methods of competitive procurement, i.e., “complex and noncommercial source selection,” and “commercial and simplified source selection.” \u00a0<em>See<\/em> AMS Policy 3.2.2.3 and 3.2.2.5, respectively.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/ch11\/\">Protests<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/adr.gov\/guidance\/adrguide-home\/ch17\/\">disputes<\/a>, and size challenges are under the jurisdiction of the Office of Dispute Resolution for Acquisition (ODRA) rather than the GAO, a board of contract appeals,\u00a0or the Small Business Administration.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are also similarities between the AMS and the FAR. \u00a0For example, many clauses in AMS contracts are very similar to FAR clauses. \u00a0When the underlying AMS policies or clauses are similar to corresponding FAR requirements, the FAA ODRA will consider the decisions of other forums as persuasive, but not binding.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":27194,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27687"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27687\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/27194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adr.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}