Contract Awarded Labor Category CALC Tool 1 About

Contract Awarded Labor Category (CALC) Tool 1

About CALC. . . The Contract Awarded Labor Category (CALC) tool, built by the Professional Services Category and 18 F, allows contracting officers and specialists to conduct research and price analysis for professional labor categories across a database of contract awarded prices for 58, 610 labor categories from more than 4, 327 recent GSA contracts. Before CALC, contracting officers had to sift through paper contracts or comb through GSA Advantage files to stitch together a picture of what a fair and reasonable hourly labor rates might be. CALC allows contract officer to search a database of labor categories in seconds and returns up to hundreds of comparables providing a comparison of fair and reasonable pricing awarded at the contract level that the contracting officer can use to conduct market research. 2 2

What does this mean for contracting officers? CALC helps contracting officers determine the range of pricing — at the master contract level — for a specific labor category. For example, a search for “Senior Engineer” will return comparable labor categories and their rates, which can be further narrowed by filtering for associated criteria such as years of experience, education level, etc. This comparison is an important piece of information that contracting officers can use to prepare an Independent Government Cost Estimate or for a price reasonableness determination. It can also be used as a data source for price analysis. 3 3

34, 360 Number of CALC users (as of 09/30/17) 4 4

How you can help. . . We're always looking for feedback on CALC. Drop us a line to share your thoughts: calc@gsa. gov 5 5