STATEMENT OF WORK_ 1333ND23QNB02564.docx

STATEMENT OF WORK

Title: Labor Market Data for the Semiconductor Industry Requesting Lab: CHIPS Program Office – Strategy Team/Workforce

I. BACKGROUND INFORMATION

In 2022, President Joe Biden signed into law the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, which provides the Department of Commerce (DOC) with $50 billion for programs to support semiconductor research, development, and manufacturing—while also investing in American workers. These programs seek to restore U.S. leadership in semiconductor manufacturing by providing incentives and encouraging investment to expand the domestic manufacturing capacity necessary to produce the most advanced semiconductors needed for applications in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, as well as less advanced semiconductors that remain critical components of everything from automobiles to microwave ovens.

On February 28, 2023, the DOC CHIPS Program Office (CPO) issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) seeking applicants for the CHIPS Incentives Program. The CHIPS incentives program can provide direct funding (via grants, cooperative agreements, or other transactions), loans and loan guarantees (collectively, CHIPS Incentives) for eligible projects. The HOFO seeks applications for CHIPS Incentives that will support investments in the construction, expansion, and modernization commercial facilities in the United States for the front- and back-end fabrication of leading-edge, current-generation, and mature-node semiconductors.

As part of the application package, CHIPS Incentives applicants must submit a workforce development plan. A highly skilled, diverse workforce is critical to meeting the goals of the CHIPS Incentives Program. This includes both the construction workforce who construct or expand facilities, and the semiconductor workforce who operate them. Applicant will need a strategy for both workforce components.

To help CPO staff with the assessment of CHIPS Incentives applicants’ workforce development plans, CPO staff needs labor market data on the semiconductor industry for detailed geographic areas.

II. OBJECTIVE

CPO requires this data for the semiconductor industry and for the labor market in general to understand current labor market resources and the potential labor pool available to semiconductor companies and their suppliers. This information is needed to validate workforce development plans submitted by applicants which contain plans to recruit, train, and hire employees to work in new or expanded semiconductor facilities. The programs funded under the CHIPS Incentive program are estimated to require an additional 90,000 facility workers over the next decade.

III. Requirements/Scope of Work

CPO is seeking a subscription to a data service that provides labor market data on employment and job postings at fine level of geographic detail (at the county or metropolitan statistical area level) for the semiconductor industry and industries requiring similar skill sets. CPO requires data that aggregates online job postings by occupation and geographic location from across a variety of public job boards and web sites. CPO also requires data about skill demand and qualifications required in job postings. CPO requires this data to be regularly updated (at least once a month) and available with minimal time lag (within one month of posting) so that labor market conditions can be assessed in as close to real time as possible.

IV. DELIVERABLES

V. PLACE OF PERFORMANCE/PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE/LEAD TIME

CPO would like access to a data subscription period of twelve (12) months from the award date with a 12 month option period.