Direct hire

More recently, DARPA has been granted Experimental Personnel Hiring Authority under Section 1101 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999. Under this authority, DARPA can directly hire up to 40 eminent scientists and engineers from outside government service for term appointments up to 4 years. These appointments may be extended to 6 years in specific cases. This authority significantly streamlines and accelerates the hiring process. 

Field duration from start of pile driving or foundations to mechanical completion. - Field hours include all direct hired, subcontractor, and supen/ision hours. 

Execute construction on direct hire basis and/or reimbursable subcontracts. 

The unit hours in the estimating procedures, in Chapter 19, are based on so-called Gulf Coast productivity which tends to be conservative since it is mainly based on a direct-hire situation and unionized labor practices. They very seldom find their way into an estimate but are adjusted, up or down, to reflect specific project requirements, contracting strategy and general business conditions as well as local labor availability and atmosphere. It is up to the Project Manager to ascertain the validity of the labor productivity used in developing construction man-hours. Labor productivity is discussed in some detail in Chapter 19. 

Construction direct hire/subcontracted, union/merit shop, etc. Contractors Work... 

The cost tracking activity could become cumbersome and expensive when construction is executed using direct-hire rather than lump sum contracts. In that case, labor productivity becomes an important cost factor and must be monitored closely to determine trends, try to make corrections, and make accurate forecasts. 

The unit hours were derived from the basic units in Table 19.17, which represents the pondered average of nine different sources, contractors as well as published data. They are based on direct hire (reimbursable) work. For work done through a competitive lump sum contract, the figures must be reduced by 15%. 

Table 19.17 Basic Piping Labor Units Based on Direct Hire Construction...

This table shows the home office hours required by a large contractor to design and procure the different types of equipment normally encountered in a chemical plant. The hours comprise all technical and clerical activities from the start of process design to project closeout. They are intended for a continuous operation, single unit plant with electronic DCS instrumentation built on a direct-hire basis on a clear site and include process-related buildings, such as a motor control center and control room. 

If construction is to be executed on a direct-hire basis, the labor costs should include only the basic labor rate. All other labor-related costs (PAC s, fringe benefits, supervision, rental equipment, etc.) should be included with the field indirects. 

Table 19.32 indicates the labor rates and fringe benefits that should be used to prepare direct-hire estimates at several U.S. locations. These rates are based on current union rates for pipefitters and represent a conservative average of the various crafts involved in construction. 

As discussed in the preceding paragraphs labor costs are defined either as the wages paid directly to the workers in a direct hire situation or the monies paid to... 

The unit hours used in all the estimating procedures are based on hours used by large contractors to estimate construction work on a direct-hire basis, reduced by 15% to allow for work done on competitive lump sum basis. 

DH (Direct hire) Practice of some general contractors of hiring craftsman directly from the local labor pools rather than subcontracting the work. 

The total cost of the field indirects is 100-130% of direct labor costs (direct hire) plus 15-20% of subcontracts and inversely proportional to project size. In the following breakdown, an asterisk denotes services usually supplied by Construction Manager or General Contractor. 

During this phase of the design work the scope established in the preliminary phase of the project is divided into work packages for award as subcontracts or, if the construction is done on a direct hire basis, they become the work packages for the various crafts. 

The construction phase (Fig. 5.) of a project can be accomplished in three main ways—construction management, general contractor, and construction by direct hire. 

The direct hire approach is used by those calling themselves constructors to gain the advantages of construction management in a way that competes with the cost of the general contractor approach. In this approach. 

Also in the organic Venetian breeding farms, like most of the conventional farms of the Region, entrepreneurial and family labor largely prevails over the directly hired labor or maehinery eontractors. Family labor is always intensely involved in the usual breeding activity, and occasionally the farmer eommits other workers in crop cultivation. 

General management and administration, including financial control, personnel management for directly hired staff and labour, asset management, site security, and standard office administration functions. 

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