PART 37 -- SERVICE CONTRACTING
(REVISED JULY 2007, DISA AC 03-17)
TABLE OF CONTENTS
SUBPART 37.1 -- SERVICE CONTRACTS--GENERAL
37.113 Severance Payments to Foreign Nationals
37.113-1 Waiver of Cost Allowability Limitations
SUBPART 37.5 -- MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT OF SERVICE CONTRACTS
37.503 Agency-Head Responsibilities.
SUBPART 37.6 – PERFORMANCE BASED ACQUISITION
37.601 General.
37.602 Performance Work Statement
37.603 Performance Standards
PART 37 -- SERVICE CONTRACTING
SUBPART 37.1 -- SERVICE CONTRACTS--GENERAL
37.113 Severance Payments to Foreign Nationals.
37.113-1 Waiver of Cost Allowability Limitations.
(a) The designee is the HCA.
SUBPART 37.5 -- MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT OF SERVICE CONTRACTS
37.503 Agency-Head Responsibilities.
The designee is the HCA.
SUBPART 37.6 – PERFORMANCE BASED ACQUISITION
(S-90) The DISA HCA has determined that telecommunications service requirements submitted by Telecommunications Service Requests (TSRs)/Telecommunications Service Orders (TSOs), and ordered via Communication Service Authorizations (CSAs) are by their nature Performance Based Acquisitions (PBAs).
(b)(2)(S-90) Except as authorized at 12.102(g)(1)(S-90), DISA contracts and task orders, must include a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan as a separate attachment to the order/contract in order to be classified as performance based.
37.602 Performance Work Statement
(a)(S-90) A fundamental objective of performance-based acquisition is to stimulate innovative solutions to Government requirements. Therefore, to the maximum extent practicable, solicitations for performance-based requirements shall include a Statement of Objectives (SOO), and require the offerors to respond with a Performance Work Statement (PWS).
(b)(2)(S-90) To the maximum extent practicable, the use of commercial performance measures and standards is encouraged. Furthermore, to ensure appropriate measures and standards are included in the contract, it is advisable to develop performance measures, standards and acceptable quality levels in concert with development of performance tasks in the PWS using a structured, matrix driven approach.
(c)(S-90) The SOO establishes the overall objectives of the work to be performed, and provides a framework for development of the PWS. However, the SOO is not incorporated in the PWS, nor does it become part of the final contract or task order. Solicitations which require offerors to prepare a PWS in response to a Government provided SOO, should include notice to the offerors that the SOO will not be incorporated in the final order or contract, and therefore, the offerors PWS should include clearly defined linkages of tasks to objectives in the SOO. It is incumbent on the Government to ensure that the objectives stated in the SOO have been satisfactorily addressed in the contractor’s proposed PWS. The most critical objectives should be considered for incorporation in the contract’s performance incentive plan.
37.603(S-90) Performance Standards
To the maximum extent practicable, commercial quality or performance standards shall be referenced for the work to be performed.