Contract Type/Structure to pay nothing if results not achieved?
Started by govt2310 · Dec 19, 2013 · 3 replies
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govt2310
Dec 19, 2013 · 12y ago
Seeking suggestions for how to structure a contract for the following:
A civilian program office needs to hire a federal employee for something mission-related. That program office wants the agency's HR office to post the job announcement to Usajobs. However, the program office also wants the HR office to hire a headhunter service contractor to also do its own search for qualified candidates. The program office has a set list of objective criteria it wants in the candidates (e.g., at least 10 years experience in such-and-such, education requirements, etc.). The program office wants the headhunter to seek candidates, submit the candidates to the HR office, and only if the names of the candidates submitted by the headhunter show up on the HR office's "qualified" list (HR has to review all candidates against the qualifications list), then the headhunter will get paid per qualified candidate it submits. If the headhunter submits candidates that are deemed NOT qualified, the program does not want the headhunter to get paid at all. So it would be X dollars unit price per each qualified candidate. The program office does not want to pay a "minimum" fee for the contract at all.
So how could the contracting officer structure such a contract? What contract type and incentives should be used?
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C Culham
Dec 19, 2013 · 12y ago
Hmmm...... my first reaction to this is FAR Part 10 - Market Research and FAR Part 12 Commercial Item.
If the industry does price their services in this manner then it would seem that as a commercial item (service) the contract could simply be FFP with a term/condition like you find in the commercial market place that there would be no payment if a individual is not found.
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formerfed
Dec 19, 2013 · 12y ago
It sounds crazy. Acceptability of the headhunters (contractors) performance depends upon some HR persons interpretation of applications against maybe unknown criteria. Then a panel maybe reviews and rates applications further? The potential for lots uphappiness and gripes is big. The headhunter/contractor can do everything right and walk away with nothing.
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Boof
Dec 19, 2013 · 12y ago
Seems like the headhunter solicitation should contain the known qualification list and be in accordance with the normal payment system for what is a common commercial service. If the contractors don't like the solicitation they should say so. I always thought it common that they only got paid for accepted candidates.