Work for Others Program at SAIC-Frederick, Inc.
SAIC-Frederick, Inc. is the Operations and Technical Support Contractor for the National Cancer Institute at Frederick (NCI-Frederick), Maryland. NCI-Frederick is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), and as such, SAIC-Frederick, Inc. may accept work from other than the National Cancer Institute (primary sponsor), once approved by the NCI Contracting Officer.
The SAIC-Frederick Work for Others (WFO) program allows SAIC-Frederick to provide private industry, state governments, local governments, colleges, universities, nonprofit, not for profit, foreign companies and foreign governments, (hereinafter, individually and collectively referred to as “Requestor”), access to highly specialized or unique technical expertise, services, and facilities not available in the private or United States non-federal public sector as authorized by the Federal Acquisition Regulations (see FAR 35.017). The ability to accommodate WFO requests is contingent upon the SAIC-Frederick programs existing work load in support of the primary sponsor.
WFO is conducted under the auspices of a bilateral contract between the Requestor and SAIC-Frederick, Inc. to perform a defined scope of work for a defined cost. SAIC-Frederick has developed a template WFO Agreement, the Terms and Conditions of which, ensure SAIC-Frederick’s compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies and directives as required by their contract with the NCI. The WFO agreement is not considered to be an SAIC-Frederick subcontract and therefore subcontract flow down provisions, if any, will not apply.
Requests for services generally start as conversations between technical representatives of the Requestor and SAIC-Frederick program. While these early discussions are important in meeting the decision-making needs of the Requestor, they are preliminary in nature and a formal WFO Request must be submitted by the Requestor to initiate the WFO process. You may access a flow diagram of the WFO process here.
WFO is conducted on a cost recovery, best efforts basis. SAIC-Frederick’s cost estimate will not include detailed cost and pricing data.
Summary of the WFO Process:
- Requestor submits a completed WFO Request to the WFO Coordinator ;
- WFO Coordinator reviews WFO Request for completeness, focusing on the justification, if acceptable, forwards WFO Request to SAIC-Frederick program;
- SAIC-Frederick program reviews WFO request and develops a cost estimate;
- WFO Coordinator coordinates SAIC-Frederick internal and NCI approval of the WFO Request;
- WFO Coordinator forwards cost estimate to Requestor for review and approval;
- Requestor reviews and sends approval of the cost estimate to the WFO Coordinator;
- SAIC-Frederick Research Contracts representative contacts Requestor’s contracts contact and a WFO agreement is finalized based on the WFO Agreement ;
- WFO Agreement is signed by both parties and work begins;
- SAIC-Frederick program initiates invoicing as the work proceeds as per the terms of the WFO Agreement;
- Work is completed and the WFO product is delivered to the Requestor; the SAIC-Frederick program initiates the final invoice.
