Contractors operating in unusually dangerous situations find they must offer hazardous duty payments to attract employees willing to work under those conditions. Probably everyone at some point has been regaled with accounts by a relative, friend, neighbor, or acquaintance about the bucket loads of money they accumulated by taking a contract gig in Iraq or Kuwait, or Afghanistan. Unfortunately, more than 1,600 of those contractor employees did not make it back alive and that’s why war hazard pay becomes necessary.
Source: PNWC’s Government Contracting Update: “War Hazard” Premium Payments
New Regulation Formalizes Ombudsman Practice and Identity for IDIQ Contracts
An ‘ombudsman’ is an official charged with addressing and/or investigating the interests of individuals’ or companies’
