What level of effort will the Government need to perform surveillance on PBAs?
A28 Surveillance levels, along with frequency of meetings and/or reports, relate to the amount of risk undertaken by the project at hand, along with how the risks are distributed, planned for, and mitigated between the Government and the contractor. The amount of Government resources devoted to surveillance on PBAs should be substantially reduced from the usual level-of-effort type contracts. The traditional intense level of oversight and surveillance should not be as prevalent in PBA because the contractor will have assumed increased accountability and responsibility for the integrity of his processes. The Government can effect greater oversight via a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan (QASP), which relies increasingly on evaluating contractor-generated internal data.
