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Why wouldn’t it be? They can ask all they want
Honestly, like someone said you need to talk to your leadership. No one has skills that aren’t replaceable. It’s a client relationship issue and your firm will try to persuade you if you’re leaving after just joining. The potential to burn goodwill with your leadership is high.
No offense, if you were senior enough for it to actually be an issue you’d know all this unless you are some super niche engineer type. And even then, the firm could hire someone to replace you. They might have to pay through their nose and again you’ll be burning bridges.
If you want out that bad, is there an issue? That should be shared with your leadership. If something shady/uncouth is going on with the client they need to know. Even if it’s the client doing it they need to have that conversation with them. Hard conversations/bad news aren’t like wine, they don’t get better with age.
If you just don’t like the project you really
need to weigh the downside of pissing off firm leadership if you’ve only been on it a short time. If it’s been a while it’s okay to start having that a conversation to at least let them prepare for and manage an exit. If you can, sell your project move as a business case. You’ll need buy-in from leadership on the project you’re going to anyway. Let them horse trade.
In the end, your leadership might ask you to stay on the at least until they find someone unless you have a reeeally good reason.
If you’re leaving the firm, don’t sweat it unless you might come back. Fed consulting is a revolving door so it might happen even if you don’t plan on it.
Are they Key or not? If key, you have to get client approval.
Key personnel, aka the PWS says that the people are critical to the success of the project and the company may not pull them from the project unless the individual(s) quit the company itself. Pretty common to have 1-10 of these people per project depending on deal size
Whether or not it’s legal i have no idea but I’ve had a federal client say that. Commercial clients too.
When you submit a proposal for an opportunity you bid people as key... meaning if they were to select that vendor, all key personnel would HAVE to support that project. All key personnel go through a more formal transition process with the client when off-boarding. Most key folks are PMs or Alt PMs
The consultants are the Key personnel. The gvt is essentially saying “we’ll award you this work as long as [key personnel) is on it and he can’t leave, while still employed at your firm, without formal procedure.” Hope that clears things up.
I get where you're coming from with this. There are issues with using contractors as de facto government employees, including making staffing decisions in a way that lets you get around the normal legal requirements for federal civil servants. Stuff happens that is not legal, in terms of hiring, personal service contracts, etc. But even in the event of things that are very illegal, you can't do anything about it. Or rather, what you can do is make clear to the firm that they lose you from the contract, or they will lose you from the company entirely.
Depends on the account team too. I was frustrated with the same situation a year ago and the govt and account leadership responded by just making me key and mod’ing the contract. Ended up leaving about 8 months after that