Wage Determination in an IDIQ for world wide services:
If I understand correctly, the wage determination would be incorporated into the base and not the task order.
My question deals with an IDIQ that is world wide or can be peformed in multiple states. What is the correct procedure for including the wage determination; being that the exact county of performance will not be known until a task order is issued.
I have included in the base IDIQ 52.222-49, which states below:
52.222-49 Service Contract Act—Place of Performance Unknown.
As prescribed in 22.1006(f), insert the following clause:
Service Contract Act—Place of Performance Unknown (May 1989)
(a) This contract is subject to the Service Contract Act, and the place of performance was unknown when the solicitation was issued. In addition to places or areas identified in wage determinations, if any, attached to the solicitation, wage determinations have also been requested for the following: ________ [insert places or areas]. The Contracting Officer will request wage determinations for additional places or areas of performance if asked to do so in writing by _____________ [insert time and date].
( Offerors who intend to perform in a place or area of performance for which a wage determination has not been attached or requested may nevertheless submit bids or proposals. However, a wage determination shall be requested and incorporated in the resultant contract retroactive to the date of contract award, and there shall be no adjustment in the contract price.
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Our agency is currently adding the wage determination to a task order because the base has language to state that the wage rate be paid in the area of actual performance.
Any help would be appreciated.