Bailey

OK. Looking at just the first part of my question. If we exercised option year 2 but did not have any orders againts it in year 2, would we be in any trouble or have any ramifications if we wanted to exercise option year 3? (Understand about the fact that we must use the contract we have in place if we have the needed for what is offered in the contract...we cannot go elsewhere...even to another installation or DLA.)

I have a requirements contract for items for a base and four option years. We issued orders against the contract in the base year and in Option year 1. We did not issue any orders in Option Year 2? We still believe that we have a requirement for the items. Would there be any ramifications or issues if we exercised Option Year 3 even though we never issued any orders against Option Year 2? To add to this... Would there be any issue if we exercised Option year 3 and later in the year procured the item that is on our contract from another government agency (DLA, etc.)? And only use our contract if DLA was not able to meet the requirement? In other words, another government agaency has a contract for this but may not have been able to meet our needs in the past when needed. So we have our contract in place if we need it. Would this cause an issue? Should we exercise our Option Year 3...or is this not allowable?