If a contract employee has proven to not perform at the level reasonably expected for the labor category being charged, and the tasks assigned, can we reject the invoice for those labor hours?
The employee was on the government site, and tried to learn how to do the job by contacting others, and others helped her perform tasks the Contract PM & team lead assigned to her. I don't see why the government should pay for an employee to try to learn how to do the work, nor pay for her hours when another contract employee who is performing labor hour tasks. This has been going on for 1 1/2 years. The contractor put the employee on a performance improvement plan, but that did not resolve the issue. The employee was finally removed from the contract & government facility. However, the contractor wants to charge us for her time.
Shouldn't the Government only pay for adequate performance, not just because someone was on site, and trying to figure out how to do the job?
This is a task order off of a GSA contract that has FAR 52.212-4