Marius M.

Hi...I have a question and I'm having a debate with leadership and the Policy Office. They are stating that if there are contracts/Task Orders/Purchase Orders/BPA that have an end date of September 30th, that per the Recording Statute we MUST sign the contracts/TOs in the correct Fiscal Year. Which means we would have to sign any action to exercise the Option Period or renewal on October 1st. My constituents and I believe and argued that if you wait until October 1st to sign these actions, that the contract has already died as it was not awarded BEFORE the end of the Period of Performance. We posed the question as to why would we not award before or on September 30th, with an effective date of October 1st and were told not to do this because of the previously mentioned Statute. What are your thoughts on this and what is a possible solution that would allow the Contracts/TOs/etc. to continue on and not die on September 30th.