I’d love those who understand the BB to reform contracting. It happened partly because of the unchecked growth of budgets and government.wgdsr wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 6:37 pmevidence is in, we'll all be 6 feet under before it does.PizzaSnake wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 5:59 pmBetter hope I and those who understand the Beltway Bandit scam never get to reform government contracting.kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 5:54 pmIn defense, you have "overhead" and "billable" employees.Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:19 pmYou be only fire people that don’t make the company money? How does your accounting system account for that?kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 12:23 pmNo we have. But why would you WANT to fire someone that makes your company money?Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sun Nov 14, 2021 1:12 amkramerica.inc wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 10:26 pmTry to understand this:Typical Lax Dad wrote: ↑Sat Nov 13, 2021 9:29 amHow can that be? A Jewish guy is claiming a religious exemption…. And some more BS…. https://apnews.com/article/health-relig ... 7b7b87c185
Management is derelict.
“No clergy are to issue such religious exemption letters,” Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros said, and any such letter “is not valid.”
There are NO federal instructions for issuing a religious exemptions. The employees dont need to provide ANY documentation whatsoever. Regardless of what their religion is.
Why would we want to fire our employees?
Are you familiar with defense contracting?
If so, why would our company fire someone that is 100% billable (govt contract pays their salary) and earns the company a 19% fee of their yearly salary?
Every person we fire loses us money. And kills our company’s capability.
Based upon a temporary mandate?
Never fired anyone?
Those in the defense industry know.
"Butts in seats" build that overhead.
The government has the need for the service, and approved the proposal, cost, and headcount. There are different types of contracts. Right now there is no such thing as a "best value." Everyhting is "LPTA" Lowest Price, technically acceptable. Companies are taking the risk, putting people on overhead and cutting costs to win. Meanwhile, the Gov't gets what they pay for.
Billable people do the contractual work.
When we bid a contract, our pricing includes salaries and "fees."
Say we bid $100/hr. We pay our billable people $60/hr salary, $20 goes to the employee's 401k and healthcare and $20 goes to the company and they use that money to pay the salaries of those who are overhead. Overhead people run the company (Owners, general warehouse/purchasing/HR, accounting, BD).
All the overhead employees at company headquarters NEED billable people to live.
The more billable people, more fees to collect. More money for overhead employees and for the company to grow and build infrastructure/capital.
We fire people occasionally for performance issues that don't improve. And truthfully, much more commonly, for non-job related idiocy.
My question (expanded for your understanding) is: Why would the company fire someone that makes my company money and bulds overhead? We dont know if we are going to be able to perform our work at this point, even with the personnel we have that is vaccinated. And truthfully, it's not a problem, until it's a problem. Like everyhting in contracting, who is paying attention? That's on the Sr Program Mangers to paint the picture that all is well and figure out how to execute the daily bs.
We are NOT going to fire people who earn us money on a daily basis and build our overhead, BEFORE there are any performance issues. No company is going to kneecap itself financially due to an undefined mandate, before it has to.
This is how the govt sends out the contracts. They control all the terms, contract vehicles(who is eligible to bid) etc. They hold the cards. Who gets to play, who can’t. Even if you’re a super-specialized contractor, the govt is still the boss and can tell you you’re not allowed to play unless you meet the contract terms.
Everything in our realm these days is low price technically acceptable (LPTA) and firm fixed price. The bid is the bid, for the work specified. That means the contractors pay all the costs, and takes all the risk. Even when contract terms are not fully spelled out during the bidding process. Overrun, or have issues- That’s the contractor’s issue. Do the work, figure out all the unknowns, complete the terms of the contract. Even if you lose money.
Is that part of what those who “understand” contracting here will reform too?
Sure I can jack up my fees and costs. But am I going to win the bid in this super competitive environment?