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
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
Revision of a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Approved without change
05/06/2024
04/02/2024
table that charts list comparision
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
05/31/2027
36 Months From Approved
05/31/2025
619,557
0
619,350
107,496
0
21,403
11,474,791
0
1,034,495
This clearance covers the information that offerors and contractors must submit to comply with the following FAR part 22 labor requirements:
â 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.
â FAR 52.222-6, Construction Wage Rate Requirements, and the Standard Form (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 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.
â 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.
â 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.
â FAR 52.222-33, Notice of Requirement for Project Labor Agreement. When a PLA (a pre-hire collective bargaining agreement described in 29 U.S.C. 158(f)) is required for a large-scale construction project within the United States for which the total estimated cost of the construction contract to the Federal Government is $35 million or more, 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. Subcontractors are required to become a party to the resulting PLA. An agency may require the use of a PLA on projects where the total cost to the Federal Government is less than $35 million, if appropriate.
â FAR 52.222-34, Project Labor Agreement. When a PLA is required for a large-scale construction project within the United States for which the total estimated cost of the construction contract to the Federal Government is $35 million or more, this clause requires the contractor to maintain the PLA in a current state throughout the life of the contract. The requirement for a PLA flows down to all subcontracts with subcontractors engaged in construction on the construction project.
â 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.
FAR Case 2022-003, Use of Project Labor Agreements for Federal Construction Projects, revised the information collection requirements as described in the final rule preamble, and this supporting statement. The estimated number of respondents and responses per year is based on the average of FPDS data for fiscal years 2019-2021. Only the burden for the FAR provision at 52.222-33, and the FAR clause at 52.222-34 is affected by this revision. All other FAR part 22 sections affected by OMB Control # 9000-0066 remain the same as previously approved.
⢠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. The application of the provision is revised to apply to large-scale construction contracts identified in FPDS and expanded to recognize IDIQ contracts and the resultant ability to require or not require PLAs on an order-by-order basis under the IDIQ. As a result, the number of contracts and respondents has increased to a range of 120 - 215. The higher end of the range, 215 respondents and 400 hours per response, was used for the estimated information collection burden for this FAR provision.
⢠FAR 52.222-34. This clause has a recordkeeping requirement, not a reporting requirement. The burden for the recordkeeping requirements in the clause at FAR 52.222-34 related to recordkeeping responsibilities for PLAs are accounted for separately from the information collection requirements in the provision at FAR 52.222-33. FPDS does not provide information on when PLAâs may be required, however, the Government is using a range to estimate the number of PLAs that will be required from a low of 60 (50 percent) to a high of 107 (90 percent). As a result, the recordkeeping requirements apply to 60 â 107 respondents. The higher end of the range, 107 respondents, was used for the estimated information collection burden for this FAR clause.
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.