Made for Federal Contractors
Control Scope Before Work Starts
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90 min
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Avoid Professional Risk
Screen a new work request, document its impact, route it to the right authority, and hold resources until written approval supports the commitment.
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Use this when
You receive a request that changes requirements, deliverables, staffing, timing, technical direction, performance location, or acceptance criteria, but authorization and funding aren't clear.
You'll need
- Requested Change
- Request Source
- Contract Baseline
- Authority Evidence
- Current Performance Status
- Impact Estimate
- Notice Requirements
- Internal Approval Route
- Initial Work Status
- Response Deadline
You'll get
- The request captured in exact terms
- Contract baseline evidence linked to each scope conclusion
- Authority and funding status confirmed or flagged
- Incremental cost and schedule effects documented
- Applicable notice dates and recipients recorded
- A proceed, hold, or decline gate approved
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- The request captured in exact terms
- Contract baseline evidence linked to each scope conclusion
- Authority and funding status confirmed or flagged
- Incremental cost and schedule effects documented
- Applicable notice dates and recipients recorded
- A proceed, hold, or decline gate approved
Sample
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Sample input
A Contracting Officer's Representative emailed our project manager asking for weekly inspections instead of monthly inspections, beginning next week. The statement of work says monthly. The Contracting Officer alone may change scope. No modification or added funding has been issued. The work would add about 48 labor hours and two trips each month, and it could delay another deliverable by five business days.
Sample assembled prompt
Decision: HOLD Basis: The requested inspection... The request came from a technical... Added funding and revised delivery direction... Release conditions: 1. Written direction from the Contracting Officer. 2. Agreement on added labor, travel,... 3. Resolution of the five-business-day schedule... 4. Internal contracts, finance, and program... 5. Required notice sent and retained. Draft response: "Thank you for the... Our current statement of work specifies... We estimate that the requested frequency... Please confirm the Contracting Officer's direction... We will continue the currently authorized...