Common use of Program and Project Management Clause in Contracts

Program and Project Management. The Contractor shall provide program and project management services to assist in program execution, program control, program assessment, program improvement, and program measurement. This support may be required at any point in the full lifecycle of a program from system requirements definition through operations and maintenance. Services may also include assisting in developing assessments, reports and plans, providing logistics support and technical training, conducting independent reviews, and education and outreach activities. Program and project management services may include, but are not limited to, the following: C.3.4.1 Provide services to develop scientific assessments and information products to enhance public education and guide governmental action. C.3.4.2 Provide services to develop and analyze NOAA's integrated observation architecture consisting of blueprints, standards, processes, and investments needed to build an integrated observational capability that delivers higher-value data and products to end-users. C.3.4.3 Provide services to develop and analyze NOAA's integrated environmental data management architecture that consists of the blueprints, standards, processes, and investments needed to build an integrated environmental data management capability that delivers higher-value data and products to end-users. C.3.4.4 Provide services to perform system engineering and operations and logistics management planning to describe the generic life cycle roadmap and milestones of the key systems engineering and operations and logistics activities to be accomplished. C.3.4.5 Provide assistance developing program baselines for performance, schedule, and cost, including review and evaluation of relevant contractor data deliverables. C.3.4.6 Provide assistance creating procedures for and developing work breakdown structures, and planning and defining systems. C.3.4.7 Provide assistance to the performance of various risk assessments, system utility analyses, cost/risk analyses, and formal risk management processes including risk management planning, risk mitigation, and risk tracking and reporting. C.3.4.8 Provide Earned Value Management data analysis services for assigned programs and projects in accordance with ANSI / EIA-748. C.3.4.9 Provide assistance developing and maintaining Program and Project Plans and System Engineering Management Plans to describe the generic life cycle roadmap of the key systems engineering activities to be accomplished by phase and to identify the organization that will be responsible for their accomplishment. C.3.4.10 Provide assistance developing Test and Evaluation Master Plans and Validation and Verification Plans. C.3.4.11 Provide services for systems requirements analysis, documentation, traceability, criticality, validation and management activities, configuration and change management activities, and system architecture development activities. C.3.4.12 Provide assistance formulating program budgets and financial and cost estimating activities required for program execution. C.3.4.13 Provide services to maintain and manage NOAA’s observing and data/information management systems requirements and their corresponding databases. C.3.4.14 Provide technical services to plan and execute technology transition. C.3.4.15 Provide independent program assessments and program reviews. C.3.4.16 Provide development and maintenance of long and short-range planning, including time lines and budget estimates. C.3.4.17 Provide management services to NESDIS offices and programs, including all administrative duties. C.3.4.18 Provide technical, analytical, and scientific services, including leading or participating in NOAA meetings, project gate reviews, and planning work sessions. C.3.4.19 Provide programs and projects with assistance in executing their allocated requirements traceable to the NESDIS Strategic Plan(s) by identifying required activities and transitioning them into tactical operations that guide the Government in conducting engineering analysis and acquisition activities for major systems. C.3.4.20 Provide assistance in developing and formulating contract technical requirements packages and implementation procedures to assist in guiding each program’s prime System Contractor. C.3.4.21 Serve the Government in evaluating and selecting system verification and validation guidelines applicable to Government programs. Contractor verification efforts may include assisting the Government to ensure justification, derivation, traceability, and complete allocation of requirements for systems. C.3.4.22 The Contractor shall provide the following services for NESDIS satellite programs: C.3.4.22.1 Provide facilitation services to reviews of NESDIS satellite programs by independent review teams. Scope of reviews may include review and assessment of planning, implementation and execution activities and status including: 1) organizational and management approach, including NOAA and NASA oversight; 2) availability of resources; 3) budget; 4) schedule; 5) technical approach; 6) technology readiness; and 7) risk identification and management. C.3.4.22.2 Provide services to the Government’s Flight, Ground, and Program test & evaluation and validation and verification (V&V) efforts, including test engineering services in defining a Program V&V plan, the Program Cal/Val Plan, and other Project V&V documents. C.3.4.22.3 Provide engineering services to Ground Segment projects, including the antenna system encompassing technical management, schedule, architecture concept, requirements definition, and verification. C.3.4.22.4 Provide Flight Segment integration and test services in the systems’ engineering, integration, and testing of the spacecraft bus and instruments. C.3.4.22.5 Provide Operation elements and technical and functional services for the management, analysis, design, integration, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance of planned Mission Operations. C.3.4.23 Provide assistance meeting instrument functional and performance goals in accordance with Government procedures for instrument data processing algorithms and instrument performance from raw measurement to level 1b product data. C.3.4.24 Provide Flight and Ground Programs technical and instrument teams to serve NESDIS satellite systems. Provide technical support to the design, implementation, and evaluation of all phases of mission solutions for NESDIS satellite systems. C.3.4.25 Provide services to the Government in fulfilling program property management responsibilities. C.3.4.26 Provide management analyst services to NESDIS programs and offices including, but not limited to: drafting communications for diverse audiences, technical presentations and background papers, talking points, and briefing papers, drafting analyses and assessments relating to internal process and quality improvements, performing business management support functions such as strategic and business planning, change management, business process re-engineering, performance measurement, training development, schedule and resource tracking, and requirements and action item administration. C.3.4.27 Provide preparation, processing, tracking, and maintenance of documentation for procurements and grants and agreements. C.3.4.28 Provide program and project management and miscellaneous services on an ad hoc basis.

Program and Project Management. The Contractor shall provide program and project management services to assist in program execution, program control, program assessment, program improvement, and program measurement. This support may be required at any point in the full lifecycle of a program from system requirements definition through operations and maintenance. Services may also include assisting in developing assessments, reports and plans, providing logistics support and technical training, conducting independent reviews, and education and outreach activities. Program and project management services may include, but are not limited to, the following: C.3.4.1 Provide services to develop scientific assessments and information products to enhance public education and guide governmental action. C.3.4.2 Provide services to develop and analyze NOAA's integrated observation architecture consisting of blueprints, standards, processes, and investments needed to build an integrated observational capability that delivers higher-value data and products to end-users. C.3.4.3 Provide services to develop and analyze NOAA's integrated environmental data management architecture that consists of the blueprints, standards, processes, and investments needed to build an integrated environmental data management capability that delivers higher-value data and products to end-users. C.3.4.4 Provide services to perform system engineering and operations and logistics management planning to describe the generic life cycle roadmap and milestones of the key systems engineering and operations and logistics activities to be accomplished. C.3.4.5 Provide assistance developing program baselines for performance, schedule, and cost, including review and evaluation of relevant contractor data deliverables. C.3.4.6 Provide assistance creating procedures for and developing work breakdown structures, and planning and defining systems. C.3.4.7 Provide assistance to the performance of various risk assessments, system utility analyses, cost/risk analyses, and formal risk management processes including risk management planning, risk mitigation, and risk tracking and reporting. C.3.4.8 Provide Earned Value Management data analysis services for assigned programs and projects in accordance with ANSI / EIA-748. C.3.4.9 Provide assistance developing and maintaining Program and Project Plans and System Engineering Management Plans to describe the generic life cycle roadmap of the key systems engineering activities to be accomplished by phase and to identify the organization that will be responsible for their accomplishment. C.3.4.10 Provide assistance developing Test and Evaluation Master Plans and Validation and Verification Plans. C.3.4.11 Provide services for systems requirements analysis, documentation, traceability, criticality, validation and management activities, configuration and change management activities, and system architecture development activities. C.3.4.12 Provide assistance formulating program budgets and financial and cost estimating activities required for program execution. C.3.4.13 Provide services to maintain and manage NOAA’s observing and data/information management systems requirements and their corresponding databases. C.3.4.14 Provide technical services to plan and execute technology transition. C.3.4.15 Provide independent program assessments and program reviews. C.3.4.16 Provide development and maintenance of long and short-range planning, including time lines and budget estimates. C.3.4.17 Provide management services to NESDIS offices and programs, including all administrative duties. C.3.4.18 Provide technical, analytical, and scientific services, including leading or participating in NOAA meetings, project gate reviews, and planning work sessions. C.3.4.19 Provide programs and projects with assistance in executing their allocated requirements traceable to the NESDIS Strategic Plan(s) by identifying required activities and transitioning them into tactical operations that guide the Government in conducting engineering analysis and acquisition activities for major systems. C.3.4.20 Provide assistance in developing and formulating contract technical requirements packages and implementation procedures to assist in guiding each program’s prime System Contractor. C.3.4.21 Serve the Government in evaluating and selecting system verification and validation guidelines applicable to Government programs. Contractor verification efforts may include assisting the Government to ensure justification, derivation, traceability, and complete allocation of requirements for systems. C.3.4.22 The Contractor shall provide the following services for NESDIS satellite programs: C.3.4.22.1 Provide facilitation services to reviews of NESDIS satellite programs by independent review teams. Scope of reviews may include review and assessment of planning, implementation and execution activities and status including: 1) organizational and management approach, including NOAA and NASA oversight; 2) availability of resources; 3) budget; 4) schedule; 5) technical approach; 6) technology readiness; and 7) risk identification and management. C.3.4.22.2 Provide services to the Government’s Flight, Ground, and Program test & evaluation and validation and verification (V&V) efforts, including test engineering services in defining a Program V&V plan, the Program Cal/Val Plan, and other Project V&V documents. C.3.4.22.3 Provide engineering services to Ground Segment projects, including the antenna system encompassing technical management, schedule, architecture concept, requirements definition, and verification. C.3.4.22.4 Provide Flight Segment integration and test services in the systems’ engineering, integration, and testing of the spacecraft bus and instruments. C.3.4.22.5 Provide Operation elements and technical and functional services for the management, analysis, design, integration, testing, deployment, operations, and maintenance of planned Mission Operations. C.3.4.23 Provide assistance meeting instrument functional and performance goals in accordance with Government procedures for instrument data processing algorithms and instrument performance from raw measurement to level 1b product data. C.3.4.24 Provide Flight and Ground Programs technical and instrument teams to serve NESDIS satellite systems. Provide technical support to the design, implementation, and evaluation of all phases of mission solutions for NESDIS satellite systems. C.3.4.25 Provide services to the Government in fulfilling program property management responsibilities. C.3.4.26 Provide management analyst services to NESDIS programs and offices including, but not limited to: drafting communications for diverse audiences, technical presentations and background papers, talking points, and briefing papers, drafting analyses and assessments relating to internal process and quality improvements, performing business management support functions such as strategic and business planning, change management, business process re-engineering, performance measurement, training development, schedule and resource tracking, and requirements and action item administration. C.3.4.27 Provide preparation, processing, tracking, and maintenance of documentation for procurements and grants and agreements. C.3.4.28 Provide program and project management and miscellaneous services on an ad hoc basis. SECTION D PACKAGING AND MARKING‌‌‌ D.1. PACKAGING‌ Unless otherwise specified, packaging of all deliverables must conform to commercial packing standards to assure safe delivery at destination. Clauses and other requirements regarding packaging shall be designated by the OCO at the task order level.