Statement of Work

The Statement of Work (SOW) specifies the government's minimum requirements for services to be performed under the resulting task order. The SOW is one of three optional work statement methods - the others being the Performance Work Statement and the Statement of Objectives - that may be used in an ITES-2S Task Order Request.

The ITES-2S Ordering Guide (1.2M MS Word file) describes the SOW with a specified format and an annotated example provided in Attachment 2.

Statements of Work are the more traditional and historically more common means for the government to define requirements for services similar to those within the scope of the ITES-2S contract. Normally, an SOW specifies a “best effort” task that is ordered on a level-of-effort or time-and-materials basis. These methods do not easily support the principles of PBSA.

Related Link:

• MIL-HDBK-245D DoD Handbook for Preparation of Statement of Work (SOW) (162k PDF file*)

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