Service Contracting Review
A contract for the acquisition of services that, by its express terms or by the manner of its administration, makes the contractor’s employees appear to be employees of the government. The employer-employee relationship may be created either intentionally or inadvertently.
What is a personal service contract?
A customer-focused, multifunctional team that plans and manages service contracts throughout the life of the requirement.
What is the Acquisition Team?
A government-prepared document incorporated into the solicitation that states the overall performance objectives. It is used in solicitations when the government intends to provide the maximum flexibility to each offeror to propose an innovative approach.
What is a Statement of Objectives?
A feature in the QASP of an output that can be measured, quantitatively or qualitatively.
What is a performance indicator?
Those services provided under contract by nongovernmental sources to support or improve organizational policy development, decision-making, management and administration, program and/or project management and administration, or research and development (R&D) activities.
What are Advisory and Assistance services?
Means an acquisition structured around the results to be achieved as opposed to the manner by which the work is to be performed. - FAR 2.101
What is Performance-based Acquisition?
Identifies the required service and performance standards the contractor must meet to successfully perform the contract. It also includes the intended method of determining performance against the standard.
What is a performance requirements summary (PRS)?
A method of surveillance that determines whether the contractor’s performance of a task for a given period of time meets the performance requirement based on randomly selected samples of the task.
What is Statistical Random Sampling?
Functions that are so intimately related to the public interest as to require performance by government employees. (FAR 7.5)
What are Inherently governmental functions?
True or False:
Performance based acquisition methods should be used to the maximum extent practicable, except for on:
(i) Architect-engineer services;
(ii) Construction (see Part 36);
(iii) Utility services (see Part 41); or
(iv) Services that are incidental to supply purchases
True
A statement of work for performance-based acquisitions that describes the required results in clear, specific and objective terms with measurable outcomes.
What is a Performance Work Statement?
Method of surveillance that is preferred for those tasks that occur infrequently, as well as for tasks that cannot be randomly sampled because the sample size for a small lot may exceed the lot size. It is also used frequently for those tasks having very stringent performance requirements.
What is 100% Inspection?
Under this statute, the Secretary of Labor determines the minimum wages to be paid employees working on nonexempt service contracts with the federal government or District of Columbia when the contract amount is in excess of $2,500.
What is the Service Contract Labor Standards statute?
Four Primary Elements of Performance Based Acquisitions:
What is a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP)?
A Performance Work Statement (PWS) focuses on the desired outcomes and performance standards, while a _________ outlines the specific tasks and deliverables required for a project.
What is a Statement of Work (SOW)?
This type of surveillance consists of the evaluation of samples selected on other than a 100% or statistically random basis. Example: weekly inspections when the COR chooses the location and time in other than a statistically random manner.
What is periodic surveillance?
Fill in the 8th step to the "Eight Steps of Performance-Based Acquisitions"
1. Establish the team.
2. Identify the objectives.
3. Market research.
4. Develop work statement.
5. Define measurements.
6. Source selection.
7. Manage performance.
8. ?
What is Complete Closeout?
True or False:
These are a few benefits to performance-based acquisitions:
Less performance risk
Contractor flexibility in proposing better solutions
Better competition: not just contractors, but solutions Contractor buy-in and shared interests
Shared incentives permit innovation and cost effectiveness
Less likelihood of a successful protest
Clear and concise performance measures increase communication between government and industry
Surveillance: less frequent, more meaningful
True
Describes the disciplined process the government will use in evaluating the contractor’s actual performance to determine conformity with the contract. It is a government document that may be written either before or after award.
What is a quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP)?
A growing method of surveillance in performance-based service acquisition. However, it also is the least precise and generally cannot be used as a basis for deducting payment since it is not a statistically valid method of surveillance. _____ _____ is likely to be subjective and may not always relate to actual requirements of the contract.
What is customer feedback?