A question, dila...
If the government issues the purchase order for “up to” a gazillion rounds, they have spent their budget, as funds are allocated even if the actual purchase is not made.
The following years’ budgets gets these funds rolled over, for the next hypothetical PO awarded for ever-increasing purchases that are never consummated. Are they just parking money this way?
BTW, thank you for taking on the free energy spammers that pop up here occasionally.
we weren’t allowed to roll over to the next year,
you had to get the item physically in hand, under your physical control. This could simply mean driving over there and putting it in the trunk of your government vehicle.
If you receive it next year it was part of that year’s budget.
We wouldn’t place an order if it wasn’t going to be in time.
In fact, the government developed a specific type of order for these iffy cases. The “Fill or Kill”, the supplier fills it per the requirements including the time of delivery or the order is null and void, self-canceling.