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Hello, 

I am having a disagreement with people in my office regarding BPA orders off of a BPA off of a GSA contract. So we established a BPA off of a GSA  contract (Using Part 8). The orders placed against that BPA are sometimes for services for a 3 year period. Like a report that takes 3 years to compile. In accordance with FAR Part 17 do you have to have options on a BPA order? Or have approval for a multi-year contract?

Thank you! 

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Guest Vern Edwards

If the services are nonseverable, then whether you have annual funds or multiple year, if you have enough money for the three year period of performance you do not need options or multiyear approval.

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Because multiyear contracting is a procedure in which the government makes a contractual commitment in advance of appropriations. See FAR 17.104(a):

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Multi-year contracting is a special contracting method to acquire known requirements in quantities and total cost not over planned requirements for up to 5 years unless otherwise authorized by statute, even though the total funds ultimately to be obligated may not be available at the time of contract award.

See also the definition in FAR 17.103.

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No, that's not correct. You are buying a nonseverable service, which is a single job with a beginning and an ending. If the job is the bona fide need of FY2016, and begins in FY2016 but ends three years later, in FY2019, and if you have enough one-year FY2016 (annual) money to pay for the entire job, then you could obligate FY2016 funds to cover the entire job, all three years of performance. You would not be conducting a multiyear procurement.

Now, listen, CPH, I'm no genius. This is all fairly basic fiscal law, covered in the GAO's Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, Vol. I, Ch. 5. I suggest that you and your colleagues study that material. If you're in DOD the topic is covered in the Financial Management Regulation.

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