Certain Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 22 Labor Requirements--FAR Sections Affected: 52.222-2, 52.222-6, 52.222-11, 52.222-18, 52.222-33, 52.222-34, 52.222-46, and SF 1413 and 1444
ICR 202203-9000-004
OMB: 9000-0066
Federal Form Document
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Certain Federal Acquisition
Regulation Part 22 Labor Requirements--FAR Sections Affected:
52.222-2, 52.222-6, 52.222-11, 52.222-18, 52.222-33, 52.222-34,
52.222-46, and SF 1413 and 1444
Extension without change of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
03/21/2022
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
03/31/2022
619,350
93,423
21,403
20,799
1,034,495
1,090,912
This clearance covers the information
that offerors and contractors must submit to comply with the
following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) part 22 labor
requirements: • FAR 52.222-2, Payment for Overtime Premiums. This
clause requires the contractor to request authorization for
overtime premiums costs that exceed the amount negotiated in the
contract. The request shall include information on the affected
work unit current staffing and workload, how a denial of the
request would impact performance on the instant contract or other
contracts, and reasons why the work cannot be performed by using
multishift operations or by employing additional personnel. • FAR
52.222-6, Construction Wage Rate Requirements, and the SF 1444.
This clause requires the contractor to establish additional
classifications, if any laborer or mechanic is to be employed in a
classification that is not listed in the wage determination
applicable to the contract. In such cases, the contractor is
required to complete and submit a Standard Form (SF) 1444, Request
for Authorization of Additional Classification and Rate, along with
other pertinent data, containing the proposed additional
classification and minimum wage rate including any fringe benefits
payments. • FAR 52.222-11, Subcontracts (Labor Standards), and the
SF 1413. This clause requires a contractor to submit an SF 1413,
Statement and Acknowledgment, for each subcontract for construction
within the United States, including the subcontractor's signed and
dated acknowledgment that the required labor clauses necessary to
implement various labor statutes have been included in the
subcontract. • FAR 52.222-18, Certification Regarding Knowledge of
Child Labor for Listed End Products. This provision (and its
commercial equivalent in the provision at 52.212-3) requires the
offeror, as part of its annual representations and certifications,
to either certify in paragraph (c)(1) that it will not supply an
end product of a type identified on the Department of Labor (DOL)
List of Products Requiring Contractor Certification as to Forced or
Indentured Child Labor (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab), or
certify in paragraph (c)(2) that it has made a good faith effort to
determine whether such child labor was used to mine, produce, or
manufacture such end product, and is unaware of any such use of
child labor. • FAR 52.222-33, Notice of Requirement for Project
Labor Agreement. When a project labor agreement (PLA) (a pre-hire
collective bargaining agreement described in 29 U.S.C. 158(f)) is
required for a large-scale construction contract, this provision
requires the offeror to submit a copy of a PLA at the time offers
are due, prior to award, or after contract award as determined by
the agency. • FAR 52.222-34, Project Labor Agreement. When a PLA is
required for a construction contract, this clause requires the
contractor to maintain the PLA in a current state throughout the
life of the contract. • FAR 52.222-46, Evaluation of Compensation
for Professional Employees. This provision requires offerors to
submit for evaluation a total compensation plan setting forth
proposed salaries and fringe benefits for professional employees
working on the contract.
Significant revisions and
adjustments made to the public and Government burden estimates are
as follows: • Current Data and Information. Where the estimated
number of respondents and responses per year is based on the
average of FPDS data for the three most recent fiscal years (2018
through 2020). The parameters for data pulled from FPDS for each
clause or provision is consistent with the prescription, which may
have resulted in changes to the number of respondents and average
contracts per respondent for the individual burden estimates. In
addition, the hourly rates used to calculate the costs per hour are
based on use of the current (calendar year 2021) OPM GS wage rates
the rest of the United States. • FAR 52.222-6. Since DOL OMB
Control No. 1235-0023 covers the burden associated with gather and
processing/analyzing the information that supports completion of
the SF 1444, this supporting statement now covers only the burden
associated with completion of the form itself. • FAR 52.222-18. SAM
was recently updated to require an offeror to provide the
certification in paragraph (c)(1) or (c)(2) of the provision. The
offeror is unable to register if they fail to provide this
certification. As such, this supporting statement now covers the
time it takes all 521,313 SAM registrants to provide the required
certification. For the few registrants that “may” provide an end
product on DOL’s list, the registrant must spend more time
reviewing their products offerings before making the certification.
As such, the burden estimate for the certification at (c)(2) is
increased from six minutes to 30 minutes per response. However, the
amount of time it takes for all other registrants to quickly
certify in paragraph (c)(1) that they do not provide covered end
products is estimated to be just over a minute and the
certification is assumed to be completed by someone with a lower
hourly rate. In addition, since all registrants have to certify to
be an active SAM registrant and considered for award, a contracting
officer would only need to validate an offerors certification in
the extremely rare circumstance that the offeror is not required to
be registered in SAM and is not already registered. Therefore, the
Government burden estimate is for one response from the minimum
number of respondents specified at 5 CFR 1320.3(c). • FAR
52.222-33. The prior supporting statement assumed that 45 service
contracts per year (11.6 percent of the FY 17 service contracts)
may require a PLA. Since FPDS does not provide information on when
PLA’s may be required, the current supporting statement relies on
the number of notices published in SAM contract opportunities that
cited “52.233-33” (an average of 57 notices per year) to estimate
how many potential contracts per year may require a PLA. • FAR
52.222-34. This clause has a recordkeeping requirement, not a
reporting requirement. As such, the burden for the recordkeeping
requirements in the clause at FAR 52.222-34 related to PLAs are now
accounted for in this supporting statement separate from the
information collection requirements in the provision at FAR
52.222-33. • FAR 52.222-46. There is no recordkeeping requirement
in this solicitation provision. As such, the burden for
recordkeeping is removed and the hourly rate that was previously
used to estimate recordkeeping is the hourly rate that is now used
for the reporting requirement.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.