SPECIAL NOTICE
B -- Employment and Hourly Compensation Costs for Manufacturing Workers in China
- Notice Date
- 1/7/2005
- Notice Type
- Special Notice
- NAICS
- 541990
— All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
- Contracting Office
- Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Procurement and Property Management, 2 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Room 1830, Washington, DC, 20212
- ZIP Code
- 20212
- Solicitation Number
- BLS-05-12
- Archive Date
- 1/20/2005
- Description
- The Bureau of Labor Statistics intends to enter into a sole source contract under Simplified Acquisition Procedures with Judith Banister, Citicham Place, Building 16 Suite 21-A, Madian, Haidian District, Beijing 100088, China for further research of the available data for China on employment, wages, and components of additional compensation costs for the manufacturing sector for the period 1990-2002. The contractor shall prepare two Monthly Labor Review (hereinafter, MLR) articles. The manuscripts for the articles shall be reorganized in the appropriate format for MLR articles and contain discussion of additional research and sources. The article shall cover the People?s Republic of China, excluding Taiwan and the Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong. The contractor shall identify areas where further research is needed. Work Plan The contractor shall base the two MLR articles partly on the final December report under the prior procurement and partly on additional research conducted under the current contract. The Bureau of Labor Statistics shall provide the contractor with the following resources for use in this work: 1. Summary notes, a transcript, and a DVD recording of the November 8 seminar at BLS. 2. Comments from an expert in the area of international comparisons of compensation, to be delivered in February 2005. 3. Guidelines for Monthly Labor Review authors and samples of international articles, including guidance and assistance in formatting charts and tables. If needed, conference calls shall be arranged between BLS staff and the contractor. Otherwise, communications shall be via e-mail, fax, and/or regular mail. The contractor shall make contacts with the appropriate personnel at China?s National Statistical Office, Labor Ministry, Ministry of Agriculture, and State Administration of Industry and Commerce, in order to obtain the data and metadata (sources, methods, definitions, interpretations) needed for the follow up parts of the project. Key follow up questions include the following: 1. Questions and suggestions raised in the discussants? comments at the November 8 seminar that were not addressed in the December report, including raising of the following questions with the statistical authorities: a. Possible overlap between ?urban? manufacturing employment and Township and Village Enterprise (TVE) employment. b. Time series on rural employment in urban units. c. Quality of TVE data and the possibility that employment figures are overstated. d. National Bureau of Statistics estimates of compensation for national accounts. e. Treatment of migrant workers in the employment and wage statistics. 2. Availability and content of additional data sources, especially: a. The labor force survey (are there data on hours of work, for example?). b. Surveys of manufacturing in 8 major cities. c. Any surveys similar to the 2002 survey by the Ministry of Labor that contained data on components of labor compensation. The contractor shall also review and address comments from an expert on international wage and compensation issues engaged by BLS; these comments will be sent to the contractor no later than February. Period of Performance The period of performance of the contract shall be from the date the procurement is issued to the contractor (preferably early January) to June 30, 2005. The contractor shall keep the contracting officer?s technical representative (COTR) informed of work progress in informal monthly progress reports. The final articles shall include but not be limited to discussion of the following topics, not necessarily in the order listed. Manufacturing employment article: 1. Summary of results. 2. Information about China?s statistical system and the role of the various statistical authorities in gathering data on manufacturing employment. 3. Sources of statistics on manufacturing employment ?surveys, censuses, administrative data, etc. 4. Definitions and coverage of employment in the various sources, including changes in definition in 1998. 5. Discussion of data discrepancies and weaknesses. 6. Assessment of probably biases in the various statistical sources on the magnitude and trend in manufacturing employment. 7. Discussion of rural to urban migration and the coverage (or lack thereof) of migrants in the statistics. 8. Adjusted time series on manufacturing employment for 1990-2002. 9. Conclusion, including future work that needs to be done and prospects for new sources of data. Manufacturing wages and compensation article: 1. Summary of results. 2. Introductory information referencing the employment article in the previous issue of the MLR and summarize points in that article that are also applicable to wages and compensation, such as the sources, urban focus of China?s statistics, data weaknesses, coverage of migrants. 3. Sources of statistics on manufacturing wages and compensation that were not already described in the employment article. 4. Process of moving from annual to monthly to hourly data calculations. 5. Definition of wages and components of compensation covered in the statistics. 6. Discussion of data discrepancies and weaknesses and probably biases that are particular to wages and compensation, such as underreporting of wages and reasons for this. 7. Adjusted compensation data for 2002 for urban and rural employees and include time series for wages, but not compensation, for 1990-2002. Explain why compensation cannot be calculated in a time series. 8. Do not include PPP calculations; do not include section on ?competitiveness of manufacturing industries in China,? except in a very summary way. 9. Conclusion, including future work that needs to be done and prospects for new sources of data. The total cost for this requirement is not to exceed $15,000. This notice of intent is not a request for offers. A determination not to complete this proposed procurement is solely within the discretion of the Government. There is no RFP notice. For information purposes only.
- Place of Performance
- Address: Beijing 100088, China,
- Zip Code: 100088
- Country: China
- Zip Code: 100088
- Record
- SN00731426-W 20050109/050107211725 (fbodaily.com)
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