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FAR and DFARS › FAR Part 52: Solicitation Provisions and Contract Clauses › Subpart 52.2

FAR 52.217-8 Option To Extend Services.

The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.

In plain English

This clause lets the Government extend performance of services under the contract, within the contract's limits and rates, by giving written notice to the Contractor. The option can be exercised more than once, but the total extension cannot exceed 6 months. It matters because a contractor may be required to keep performing services beyond the original period.

Applies to: Contracts for services that include this clause

What it requires

  • Continue performance of services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract if the option is exercised

Key terms: option · Contracting Officer · written notice · prevailing labor rates · Secretary of Labor

Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.

The text

As prescribed in 17.208(f), insert a clause substantially the same as the following:

Option To Extend Services (NOV 1999)

The Government may require continued performance of any services within the limits and at the rates specified in the contract. These rates may be adjusted only as a result of revisions to prevailing labor rates provided by the Secretary of Labor. The option provision may be exercised more than once, but the total extention of performance hereunder shall not exceed 6 months. The Contracting Officer may exercise the option by written notice to the Contractor within ___ [insert the period of time within which the Contracting Officer may exercise the option].

(End of clause)

Sections it refers to

  • 17.208 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.

Sections that refer to it

  • 17.208 Solicitation provisions and contract clauses.
  • 19.301-2 Rerepresentation by a contractor that represented its status as a small business concern.
  • 52.219-28 Postaward Small Business Program Rerepresentation.

← 52.217-7 Option for Increased Quantity—Separately Priced Line Item. · 52.217-9 Option To Extend the Term of the Contract. →

Rule changes for FAR Part 52

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.

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