Attachment 2 Labor Rates in pdf.pdf

DTFH61-10-R-00010

Attachment 2

The following hourly labor rates are considered approved for use in Task Order Proposals. Actual labor rates are subject to review and approval at the Task Order level.

Note: Offerors may add rows for multiple personnel in the same labor category as necessary. Offerors must clearly indicate whether labor rates are unloaded labor rates or loaded consultant rates, and to which company (prime versus subcontractor) the rates apply.

Hourly Direct Labor Rates for Use in Task Order Proposals (to be filled in at award)

Company Labor Category Base Period Year 1

Base Period Year 2

Option Period 1

Option Period 2

Option Period 3

Program Manager $ $ $ $ $ Principal

Investigator(s)

Meeting Facilitator

Fiscal Manager Coordinator Clerical Writer/Editor Technical

Transfer (T2) Specialist

Information Mgmt Specialist

Data Analyst Design Engineer

(High)

Design Engineer (Low)

Technical Specialist

Technical Expert Data Entry clerk Program Analyst

(High)

Program Analyst (Low)

The Government’s estimated labor categories, duties, and recommended experience and education are listed below. Education and years of experience are estimated and recommended but are not required or mandatory. If an Offeror departs from the education and years of experience proposed below, the Offeror must provide adequate explanation to justify the departure from the recommended qualifications.

Labor Rate Descriptions/Recommended Qualifications:

Program Manager: The Program Manager (PM) shall be responsible for overall management of the contract, including quality assurance for all products delivered to the government and availability of resources to complete all task orders. The PM shall have experience in successfully managing at least two completed projects under federal contract, of comparable size and content as this contract. This contract is likely to involve multiple ongoing task orders and multiple subcontractors, the PM, the PM shall have a minimum of 3 years experience in managing a contract or project(s) of similar size and complexity (i.e. multiple ongoing activities and multiple parties involved), and 10 years experience in transportation related contract management, and research and development A masters degree is recommended, however, a bachelor’s degree is acceptable if both levels of experience listed above are available with a PM candidate possessing a bachelor’s degree. The PM must have demonstrated success in keeping programs involving multiple subcontractors on schedule and within budget, and in providing high quality products meeting the sponsor’s expectations.

Principal Investigator: The Principal Investigator (PI) shall be responsible for overall technical direction and supervision of task leaders on all tasks under the contract. It is recommended that the PI have a Masters degree in a field applicable to highway safety and traffic engineering, and a minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in highway safety and traffic engineering-related contract management and research. A bachelor’s degree is acceptable if the PI has a minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in highway safety and traffic engineering-related contract management and research. This experience shall include technical leadership of significant work on highway safety and must have the ability to effectively multitask on a daily basis across different task orders to effectively provide technical guidance with regard to the master contract. requirements

Meeting Facilitator: The facilitator shall have, as a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree plus administrative, technical or academic affiliation, and/or other experience that demonstrates a competence equal to the necessary effort of leading panel discussions.

The facilitator will be responsible for leading discussions in productive directions, resolving blocks to discussions, and minimizing digressions into unproductive directions.

Fiscal Manager: The fiscal manager shall have, as a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree plus administrative, financial or academic affiliation, and/or other experience that demonstrates a competence to manage the fiscal portion of complex projects on a scale of this contract.

Coordinators: The coordinators shall have a background in meeting planning including experience that reflect successful arrangement of related elements: meeting room accommodations with adequate space, visual aid equipment, and room setup for the most beneficial conduct of the business of the technical meeting: hotel accommodations: travel for participants: travel cost authorization and reimbursement; and other elements. A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 3 years related experience is required for this position.

Clerical: The clerical people shall have a background in clerical and/or secretarial work through completion of a secretarial educational program plus 2 years of clerical work experience (educational requirements may be fulfilled by 2 years of additional clerical experience). These staff people will provide clerical support to the project manager, the meeting facilitator, the fiscal manager, the coordinators, the technical experts and the technical specialists.

Writer/Editors: The writer/editors shall have, as a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree plus 2 years experience in writing and editing technical material, preferably in the highway-engineering field (4 additional years of writing/editing experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree.) The writer/editors must be skilled in writing and editing documents of various lengths from 1 or more than 100 pages, ensuring technical accuracy, proper grammar, consistency of style, and proper format.

Technology Transfer Specialists: The technology transfer (T2) specialist must have a master’s degree with at least 5 years experience in professional education, curriculum development, educational methods, and research implementation or knowledge management, crash data analysis, and have a thorough understanding of adult learning methods and professional education practices. A bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 8 years related experience listed above is also an acceptable level of experience... The T2 specialist may also perform other roles.

Information Management Specialist: Experience in managing implementation of information and experience in systems analysis, design, and implementation. Minimum of B.S or B.A degree with at least 3 years of experience in information system development, functional and data requirement analysis, system analysis and design, programming, program design, and documentation preparation for preparing analysis data extracted from analysis from complex systems. Applies processes for analyzing, designing, and implementing information extracted from complex or detailed data systems. Develops analytical and computational techniques and methodology for problem solutions. Performs process and data modeling in support of analysis efforts, using manual and automated tools

Data Analyst: Minimum Education: BS/BA or equivalent with five years experience in conducting complex data analysis. Functional Responsibility: Develop appropriate methodologies to collect, analyze and present data products. Design data models for implementation. Use and support database applications, and analytical tools and incorporate industry best practices to work assignments.

Design Engineer (High): Minimum of B.S. degree with 7 years experience in the areas of system design, engineering, and integration with least 5 years of hands-on experience in direct execution of major efforts in the translation of a system, subsystem, program, project, or activity concept into a preliminary and detailed design, performing risk identification, analysis, and mitigation, and then integrating the various components to produce a working prototype or model of the system. Leads systems design technical effort and performs typical tasks that include, but are not limited to, highway geometric design and roadside design/safety, design studies and analysis, research and development, specification preparation, configuration management and document control, fabrication, assembly, and simulation and modeling.

Design Engineer (Low): Minimum of B.S. degree with 4-6 years experience in the areas of system design, engineering, and integration with least3 years of hands-on experience in direct execution of major efforts in the translation of a system, subsystem, program, project, or activity concept into a preliminary and detailed design, performing risk identification, analysis, and mitigation, and then integrating the various components to produce a working prototype or model of the system. Typical associated tasks include, but are not limited to, highway geometric design and roadside design/safety, design studies and analysis, research and development, specification preparation, configuration management and document control, fabrication, assembly, and simulation and modeling.

Technical Specialist: The term technical specialist includes engineer, computer specialist, Training Specialist, Video Specialist, Communications Specialist, Multimedia Designer, and Graphic Artist, etc. The technical specialists shall have as a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in a subject area that is directly related to the subject of relevance to the technical panel and 2 years of experience. The experience shall be in the relevant technical field through work in a public or private organization, through academic affiliations, or other experience that reflects technical accomplishments in the subject area and that demonstrates a competence equal to the necessary effort of providing expert technical advice to the panels in their reviews and evaluation of proposed projects and other information.

Technical Experts: The term technical experts includes engineer, computer specialist, Training Specialist, Video Specialist, Communications Specialist, Multimedia Designer, and Graphic Artist, etc. The technical experts shall have, as a minimum, a Master’s degree in a subject area that is directly related to the subject of relevance to the technical panel and 10 years of experience. The experience shall be in the relevant technical field through work in a public or private organization, through academic affiliations, or other experience that reflects national recognition of expertise and technical accomplishments in the subject area.

Entry Clerks: The entry clerks must have, as a minimum, 2 years of experience working with computers and in particular database information entry and monitoring.

Program Analysts: The term program analyst includes program analyst and designers, systems analysts and engineers, and professional management specialists and experts.

The program analysts shall have as a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree in a subject area pertinent to program design and operation (to include data analysis) that is based on achieving and performance measuring managerial and programmatic goals, missions and objectives.