Quick Question,
My company has a fixed-price contract with the government where we are paid agreed upon amounts for certain deliverables throughout the year. Today I received a notice from the Contract Officer indicating that if the shutdown lasts through October 15th, my company should stop work at that date in accordance with 52.252-15. Since this is fixed price, I'm not really sure I fully understand what we should do. If we have deliverables due in November does this mean we shouldn't work on them after October 15? I have to pay my staff either way, so surely they can work on them. I can understand that we should limit incurring any cost-reimbursable charges, but that's limited to travel in our case. I assume this is so that we can't come back to the government claiming that the shutdown caused us a lot of additional expense, but not having our staff work on the deliverables would seem to be more costly to us, not less.