От всех этих "работ" сильно веет совком. Может использовать что-то типа Costs and project size are subject to agreement...

Удачи!

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Steffen, sorry for misspelling your name!

work·load
n.
- The amount of work assigned to or expected from a worker in a specified time period.
- The amount of work that a machine produces or can produce in a specified time period.

Cost and scope of work are to be agreed upon...

SCOPE OF WORK - именно так обзывают объем работ американцы. Насчет англичан - не уверена. Но в бизнесе американский английский превалирует.

"Согласовывать" еще же используется в смысле "определять", "установить" согласно чего-то, на основании чего-то, ктакому-то времени, что угодно, но не просто абстрактно.Может быть, это в последующей части предложения сказано?Более точно можно бы сказать, было бы все предложение.

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Thanks for you agree with my suggestion. But no political economics or marxism involved here. It\'s simply about building activities and an absolutely common technical term in (Soviet) Russian.

My two cents :-).

First of all, I totally agree with all the proposed 'Scope of Work' answers. For the US contractual documentation, it's the most commonly used term (at least, based on my personal experience.)

I just wanted to offer a little more info on the subject. As you can see from the definition examples below, the two terms are quite interchangeable. From the practical standpoint, choosing between them would largely depend on the context. If it's just the most general one-sentence reference to the amount of effort required under the contract, I would go with 'Scope of Work'. If, however, it's more of a 'состав работ', and especially if there exists a separate document specifying the details of the actual work to be performed (tasks, schedule, deliverables, etc.), my preference would be 'Statement of Work'.

Definitions (from Wideman Comparative Glossary of Project Management Terms v2.0: http://www.maxwideman.com/pmglossary/index.htm):

Scope of Work

1. A chronological (narrative) description of the work to be accomplished or resources to be supplied.

2. A statement of the work content of a project required to achieve the project scope. The work content of a project is the sum of all necessary tasks and activities required to complete the project scope in its entirety (i.e. its complete work breakdown structure). See also Work Scope.

3. The work content of a project or any component of a project, such as a work package or a cost class, e.g.. a summary description of the work involved in constructing a project.
Editor's Note: Scope of Work describes the work involved in producing the product of the project, whereas 'Scope' or the 'Scope Statement' describes the resulting product.

4. The work involved in the design, fabrication and assembly of the components of a project's deliverable into a working product.


Statement of Work ("SOW")

1. A narrative description of products or services to be supplied under contract.

2. The part of the request for proposal and resulting contract which describes the actual work to be done under the contract. It includes a description of the tasks the provider shall perform and the identification and schedule of the deliverable contract end items.

3. A description of product and service to be procured under contract; a statement of requirements.

4. That portion of a proposal or the resulting contract that states exactly what will be delivered and when.
Editor's Note: This definition is more properly a 'Scope Description'

5. A narrative description of the work to be performed.

6. A document that defines service contract requirements in clear, concise language identifying specific work to be accomplished.
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Statement of Work Format. (SOW)

This statement of Work (SOW) defines the effort required for the design, engineering development, fabrication, and test of a prototype of the project name System for the Demonstration and Validation Phase. It includes the associated program management, human engineering, and logistic support planning requirements.
http://sparc.airtime.co.uk/users/wysywig/sow_mt.htm
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Another little thing :o)

If 'согласовывается...' means an agreement between the parties involved (subjects of the contract), the translation would be "agreed upon..."

However, if 'согласовывается...' implies a permission from some figure of authority that needs to be received before you can go ahead with the contract, I would choose "concur" (соглашаться, одобрять)
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PS: I am almost done here, honestly! :o) I would like to suggest a great site that could be helpful to many of us involved in translating Contracts/Agreements and such. Spend a couple of minutes, go check it out:

http://www.miripravo.ru/ (http://www.miripravo.ru/forms/forms.htm)

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Посмотрите, пожалуйста, на приведенные ниже примеры: может быть, вам из более широкого контекста будет яснее, какому термину отдать предпочтение (очевидно, что иерархия по нисходящей: Statement of Work -> Scope of Work)

Guidelines (generic outline) of a
STATEMENT OF WORK

1. Task Order Title
2. Background
3. Objectives
4. Scope (of work)
For example:

Task Area 1. Chief Information Officer (CIO) Support

Task Area 2. Outsourcing

Task Area 3. IT Operations and Maintenance

Task Area 4. Integration Services

Task Area 5. Critical Infrastructure Protection and Information Assurance

Task Area 6. Digital Government

Task Area 7. Enterprise Resource Planning

Task Area 8. Clinical Support, Research, and Studies

Task Area 9. Software Development

5. Specific Tasks
6. Contract Type
7. Place of Performance
8. Period of Performance
9. Deliverables/Delivery Schedule
10. Security
11. Government Furnished Equipment (GFE)/ Government Furnished Information (GFI)
12. Packaging, Packing, and Shipping Instructions
13. Inspection and Acceptance Criteria
14. Accounting and Appropriation Data
15. Other Pertinent Information or Special Considerations
16. Post-Award Administration
17. Evaluation Criteria

http://nitaac.nih.gov/Nhome/cio2/CIOSP2SOW.html

Also, see a real document (STATEMENT OF WORK) at
http://nitaac.nih.gov/Nhome/cio2/ciosp2contractframe.html

Preparing the Statement of Work
The Statement of Work is a document that lists and describes all essential and technical requirements for the effort to be performed, including standards to be used to determine whether the requirements have been met. This document may include the following items where appropriate...
http://rf.osu.edu/pag/app/app12.htm

Other useful sites with examples of SOW (and how Scope of Work fits into it):
http://www.faa.gov/ara/asu/asu530/bits/sow.htm
http://www-cta.ornl.gov/cta/research/idas/sowindex.html

Варианты:

job (work)content
amount of work (performed)

Cost/value and amount/volume of work[s] to be executed are coordinated...

Стоимость – cost, value.
Объем – amount, volume
Согласовывать – coordinate, agree upon, submit

Предлагаю, как вариант. Более точно можно сказать видя весь абзац.

Предлагаю как вариант.
Полностью: the cost and scope of works to be completed are agreed mutually (затем обычно следует период времени или оговариваются условия такого согласования)например: on monthly (dayly, weekly basis)