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What Contractors Can Do When Gov't Makes Options Mistakes

By Terrence O’Connor (September 4, 2018, 4:03 PM EDT) -- As the government fiscal "New Year's," Oct. 1, approaches, September typically finds government contracting officers exercising options for another year of contract performance. Years of working with government contract clients and teaching government contracting officers have shown me that, often, neither party understands how an option is legally exercised. Nor do they realize that not following the rules to the letter invalidates the option. Specifically, government contractors do not realize that an improper option exercise may entitle them to any increased costs for the work they do following an invalid option exercise....

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