For this assignment, you will continue working as IT manager on the business plan for the new HWE Accessories website. Part 1: Contract Plan Complete the Contract Plan Template. Part 2: Proje

HWE Accessories plans to use a third party for their new website, and they need a contract prepared for the third-party company.

Based on your Wk 2 - Apply: Project Plan and Risk Matrix assignment and additional information you learned this week, complete the Contract Plan Template below using the provided prompts. Customize the template, if needed.

1. Statement of Need: Introduce the plan with a brief statement of need. Summarize the technical and contractual history. Discuss feasible contract alternatives, prior contracts, and any related in-house efforts.

2. Applicable Conditions: State all significant conditions affecting the system, such as requirements for compatibility with existing or future systems or programs; and any known cost, schedule, and compatibility or performance constraints.

3. Costs and Period of Performance: The projected expenditure for the proposed system based upon the Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) in the table below:

   Period	Cost	Period of Performance
   Base Year	$0.00	MM/DD/YYYY through MM/DD/YYYY
   1st Option Year	$0.00	MM/DD/YYYY through MM/DD/YYYY
   3rd Option Year	$0.00	MM/DD/YYYY through MM/DD/YYYY
   4th Option Year	$0.00	MM/DD/YYYY through MM/DD/YYYY
   Total	$0.00

4. Capability or Performance: Specify the required capabilities or performance characteristics of the supplier or the performance standards of the services and how they relate to the need.

5. Delivery or Performance Period Requirements: Describe the basis for establishing delivery or performance period requirements. Explain and provide reasons for any urgency or explain and provide justification for not providing for full and open competition.

6. Trade-Offs: Discuss the expected consequences of tradeoffs among the various cost, capability, or performance and schedule goals.

7. Risks: Discuss the technical, cost, and schedule risks and describe what efforts are being planned to reduce risk and the consequences of failure to achieve goals.

   1. Technical:

   2. Cost:

   3. Schedule:

1. Product or Service Description: Explain the choice of product or service description types, including performance-based contracting descriptions, to be used in the plan.

2. Potential Sources: Address and/or detail the following:

1. Prospective Offerors: Describe how prospective offerors will be identified.

2. Market Research: Identify who conducted the market research. Address the extent and results of the market research and indicate their impact on the various elements of the plan.

1. Competition: Specify if the proposed plan will be solicited on a competitive or noncompetitive basis. If full and open competition is not contemplated, explain the basis for that decision.

2. Source Selection Procedures: Address and/or detail the following:

   1. Evaluation Procedures: Explain how offers will be evaluated and explain the relationship of the evaluation procedures to the technical factors/standards, technical evaluation team, and solicitation requirements.

Example: Proposals will be evaluated pursuant to the “Best Value Continuum” Source Selection Process, with emphasis placed on past performance, management capabilities and personnel qualifications, price, and on the contractor’s quality control plan as risk factors in determining overall technical acceptability. Past performance data, management capabilities and personnel qualifications, and the contractor’s quality control plan will be evaluated in accordance with FAR 15.305. A team of qualified business personnel will evaluate technical proposals in accordance with the requisite source selection plan and the solicitation. Price proposals will be evaluated independently of technical evaluations. Award will be made to the technically acceptable offeror(s) whose proposal, being responsive to all solicitation requirements, offers the best value to the business. Award will further be contingent upon determinations of contractor responsibility and price reasonableness.

1. 1. Evaluation Factors: For guidance, reference evaluation factors in the course textbook.

   2. Evaluation Factor Standards: For guidance, reference evaluation factor standards in the course textbook.

2. Contracting Considerations: Address and/or detail the following:

   1. Contract Type: For example, this could be firm, fixed-price, or requirements contract.

   2. Options: Specify any options to be used. For example, “option to extend services” or “option to extend the term of the contract” may be included as unilateral authority to extend services based upon continued need and funds availability. If options will not be used, provide a brief explanation.

   3. Special Contract Clauses, Provisions, or Deviations: Specify the special contract clauses, provisions, or deviations, if any.

   4. Contracting Method: Detail the contracting method, including any negotiated procedures being used.

Example: It has been determined that use of negotiated procedures for the proposed system is most conducive to the business needs. The flexibility to hold discussions with potential offerors significantly enhances the business’ ability to maximize competition and obtain quality services at fair and reasonable pricing.

1. 1. Contract Administration: Identify who will administer the contract.

2. Budgeting and Funding: Address and/or detail the following:

1. Derivation of Budgeting Estimates: For guidance, reference the course textbook.

2. Funding Availability: Subject to Availability of Funds or FYXX funds are available.

3. Currency Used: Provide this in U.S. Dollars.

1. Management Information Requirements: Discuss, as appropriate, what management system will be used to monitor the contractor’s effort, such as a quality assurance surveillance plan (QASP), a management plan, or a work plan (e.g., construction).

2. Logistics Considerations: Describe the distribution of commercial items; the reliability, maintainability, and quality assurance requirements, including any planned use of warranties; requirements for contractor data, including repurchase data and data rights, their estimated cost and the use to be made of the data and standardization concepts, including the necessity to designate, in accordance with agency procedures, technical equipment as “standard” so that future purchases of the equipment can be made from the same manufacturing source.

3. Business-Furnished Equipment: Indicate any property to be furnished to contractors, including material, facilities, office equipment, etc., and discuss any associated considerations, such as its availability or the schedule for its acquisition.

4. Business-Furnished Information: Discuss any business information, such as maps or drawings, to be provided to prospective offerors and contractors.

5. Safety and Security Considerations: Discuss how adequate security will be established, maintained, and monitored. This might include requiring the contractor to obtain security clearances and building badges/passes. Include additional or other requirements as needed.

6. Evaluation and Selection Process: Based on your Week 3 readings and discussion, outline the criteria to evaluate potential contractors to provide the solution.

7. Vendor Risk and Relationship Management: Based on your Wk 2 - Apply: Project Plan and Risk Matrix assignment, describe the risks associated with hiring a contractor for hosting the website.

8. Software Escrow: Describe the basic agreement between HWE Accessories and the contractor with respect to any software code and HWE-owned data developed or managed by the contractor in the event the contractor ends the contract.

9. Software Licensing: Describe the software licensing agreement for any third-party software providing by either HWE Accessories or the contractor.

10. Milestones for System Cycle: Insert the appropriate milestone chart.