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Originally Posted by WildnFree
Long story short I was fortunate enough to find a job as a contractor after two months of being laid off from BRAC. I started in January and commute about 128 miles each way to and from my current job. I want to move closer to my job but I found out that the contract expires in September.
Never had a contracting job before so how does this work? If the contract expires I don't have a job with the company? Is it even worth me moving out only to know the that the contract expires within a few months?
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What kind of company? I work as a Government contractor. The company I used to work for had a multi-year contract for providing services to the government. The contract came up for re-bid about 3 years after I start working for them. A different company won the contract, what basically happened is the new company hired most the workers that were working for the old company. Medical insurance changed, some people lost some vacation seniority, that's pretty much it. If your doing the work for the government, you know the job, you have already have security clearance, it make no sense to fire everyone and hire all new employees you have to get new security clearances for and train how to do the work they want done. It would be a major disruption for the client. The same would apply to just about any other company, so long as there is another company that wins the contract business, chances are you'll just slide over to the new company.
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Originally Posted by WildnFree
The weird thing is that my company is still hiring people.
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There's nothing weird about that. It's far better to write a proposal to the government you provide 110 positions than 100. They are attempting to win the contract, and if they don't they still get there money of the positions they did fill until the contract expired.
I used to think the environment I worked in was very strange there were direct Federal employees and contractors. About the 1/2 the contractors worked for one contracting company, 1/3 worked for another and the rest where for all different contracting companies. They split the work up and so many positions for each company that goes in on a bid together. Partnering they call it, There's a primary contractor and usually 2 or 3 smaller contracting companies. If they win, the prime get 70 or 80% of the business and the other 20% or 30% gets split between the other companies. It's very expensive to write up a bid proposal. You have to hire people to write up the proposal that meets the requirements laid out by the government bid, then wait months, sometimes years for the government to make a decision. You could spend $10,000 writing a proposal for a government contract than 6 months later have them tell you there funding was cut and they withdraw the bid or put it on hold forever. Also if my company XYZ able to find qualified candidate to fill an opening the government needs, I could make a deal with the primary contracting company, you give me a percentage of the positions fee and the position gets filled. Naturally the Prime contractor would rather hire the person themselves, so they don't have to share any of the profit, but this isn't always possible.
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