Attachment_4_-_General_Requirements.docx

7.0 GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

This section describes the general requirements for this effort. The following sub-sections provide details of various considerations on this effort.

7.1 Non-Personal Services - The Government shall neither supervise contractor employees nor control the method by which the contractor performs the required tasks. Under no circumstances shall the Government assign tasks to, or prepare work schedules for, individual contractor employees. It shall be the responsibility of the contractor to manage its employees and to guard against any actions that are of the nature of personal services, or give the perception of personal services. If the contractor believes that any actions constitute, or are perceived to constitute personal services, it shall be the contractor's responsibility to notify the Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO) immediately.

7.2 Business Relations - The contractor shall successfully integrate and coordinate all activity needed to execute the requirement. The contractor shall manage the timeliness, completeness, and quality of problem identification. The contractor shall provide corrective action plans, proposal submittals, timely identification of issues, and effective management of subcontractors. The contractor shall seek to ensure customer satisfaction and professional and ethical behavior of all contractor personnel.

7.3 Contract Administration and Management - The following subsections specify requirements for contract, management, and personnel administration.

7.3.1 Contract Management - The contractor shall establish clear organizational lines of authority and responsibility to ensure effective management of the resources assigned to the requirement. The contractor must maintain continuity between the support operations and the contractor's corporate offices.

7.3.2 Contract Administration - The contractor shall establish processes and assign appropriate resources to effectively administer the requirement. The contractor shall respond to Government requests for contractual actions in a timely fashion. The contractor shall have a single point of contact between the Government and Contractor personnel assigned to support contracts or task orders. The contractor shall assign work effort and maintain proper and accurate time keeping records of personnel assigned to work on the requirement. The Contractor shall provide the necessary resources and infrastructure to manage, perform, and administer the contract.

7.3.3 Personnel Administration - The contractor shall provide the following management and support as required. The contractor shall provide for employees during designated Government non-work days or other periods where Government offices are closed due to weather or security conditions. The contractor shall maintain the currency of their employees by providing initial and refresher training as required to meet the PWS requirements. The contractor shall provide administrative support to employees in a timely fashion (time keeping, leave processing, pay, emergency needs).

7.4 Subcontract Management - N/A

7.5 Contractor Personnel, Disciplines, and Specialties - The contractor shall accomplish the assigned work by employing and utilizing qualified personnel with appropriate combinations of education, training, and experience. The contractor shall match personnel skills to the work or task with a minimum of under/over employment of resources. The contractor shall ensure the labor categories as established on contract award, labor rates, and man-hours utilized in the performance of the requirements herein will be the minimum necessary to accomplish the task.

7.6 Location and Hours of Work - Accomplishment of this tasking requires work at NSWC, Corona.

7.7 Travel / Temporary Duty (TDY) - N/A

7.8 Transition - N/A