ATTACHMENT_J.7_-_LEVEL_OF_EFFORT.docx

ATTACHMENT J.7 – LEVEL OF EFFORT (LOE)

a) The Contractor must provide 30,979 person-days level of effort of professional technical employee, consultant, and subcontractor labor for the contract period of performance specified in Section F.2 of the RFP. This labor can be US, third country or local staff and can be long or short-term labor. It must not include administrative positions such as the Program Officer, Human Resources Manager, Administrative Assistant, Administrative Manager, Program Assistant or any other position that has the primary function of providing administrative support to the contract. The Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party are included as professional technical labor (For the list of duties, responsibilities and required qualifications for the Key Personnel, please visit Section F.7 of the RFP).

b) The number of person-days for any labor category may be used in any other labor category, subject to the written approval or direction of the COR. Once the level of effort has been fully expended, the contract is complete.

c) The level of effort by labor category is set forth as a table below (note that this table will be incorporated based on the successful offeror’s proposal submission).

The level of effort for this Contract is as follows:

LABOR CATEGORY

TOTAL (person-days)

Long-Term Technical Assistance - Key personnel (Chief of Party, Deputy Chief of Party and Grants Manager)

Long-Term Technical Assistance (CCN)

Long-Term Technical Assistance (Expatriate)

Short-Term Technical Assistance (CCN)

Short-Term Technical Assistance (Expatriate)

TOTAL

30,979

d) The above chart defines the required level of effort to be delivered in the performance of Section C of this contract. Once the required level of effort has been provided, the contract will be completed; however, the Contractor may, with the written approval of the Contracting Officer (CO), reallocate level of effort between labor categories as a matter within the general scope of the contract. No reallocation of LOE can result in an increase in the total estimated cost of the contract without a contract modification executed by the CO. No reallocation of level of effort authorizes the Contractor to exceed the obligated amount in the contract without a contract modification executed by the CO.