22. Attachment E - DPO.pdf

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This document outlines contractor requirements for the Differing Professional Opinion (DPO) process as established in Department of Energy Order 442.2. The contractor must ensure all employees and subcontractors are notified quarterly of their right to report unresolved environment, safety, and health concerns through the DOE DPO process. Notifications must include contact information for DPO Managers and the DOE DPO website address. The contractor is also responsible for protecting employees from reprisal, providing reasonable time and resources to use the DPO process, assisting DOE as requested in DPO resolutions, and reporting implementation action status and closures to DOE upon request.

The related federal contract opportunity is solicitation number 89503221BWA000040 for the Seminoe Switchyard Stage 03 project from the Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration. No further details are provided on products/services, response dates, pricing or other salient terms.

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Attachment E

Seminoe Switchyard Stage 03 DPO

89503221BWA000040

10 March 2021

DOE O 442.2 Attachment 1 7-29-11 Page 1-1

CONTRACTOR REQUIREMENTS DOCUMENT

DOE O 442.2, Differing Professional Opinions for Technical Issues Involving Environment, Safety and Health

Regardless of the performer of the work, the contractor is responsible for complying with the requirements of this CRD. The contractor is responsible for flowing down the requirements of this CRD to subcontractors at any tier to the extent necessary to ensure the contractor’s compliance with the requirements. The contractor must:

1. Ensure that all employees and subcontractor employees are notified quarterly that they have the right to report environment, safety, and health technical concerns that have not been resolved through routine work processes through the Department of Energy Differing Professional Opinion (DPO) process (the DOE DPO process can be found in Attachment 2 to DOE O 442.2 found at https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0442.2-BOrder-chg1-pgchg. The notification must provide points of contact (name, phone number and email addresses of DPO Managers) as listed on the DOE DPO web page, as well as the DOE DPO web page address.

2. Protect employees from reprisal or retaliation for reporting a DPO.

3. Provide employees reasonable time and resources to use the DPO Process.

4. Assist DOE as requested in the resolution of DPOs.

5. Report to the DOE when requested on the status of assigned implementation actions resulting from the DPO resolution and on the closure of these implementation actions.

https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0442.2-BOrder-chg1-pgchg https://www.directives.doe.gov/directives-documents/400-series/0442.2-BOrder-chg1-pgchg

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