For Contractors, an REA for Keeping Your People Safe and on the Job

Piliero Mazza – In COVID-19 times, one of the ongoing challenges for contractors is how to obtain upward equitable adjustments for increased operating costs due to the crisis. These costs could include more janitorial services, reconfiguring and/or refurnishing workspaces, changing processes and/or systems, overcoming supply chain fluctuations, enabling more remote work, compartmentalizing work groups, implementing shift work, allotting administrative time for health checks, giving more transportation and parking benefits, providing Personal Protective Equipment (“PPE”), adding headcount made necessary by changes, as well as recouping the costs for any lost efficiencies due to the foregoing. This blog examines paths to a Request for Equitable Adjustment (“REA”) that may be available for government contractors.

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