Well, here I am 5.5 months into my 4-6 month contract. I am still not permanent, but I met with my recruiter (and her boss) today. The contractor has put my name into their contract (with the government) as a “mission essential” employee for my particular project. This contracting company will be negotiating this contract with the government in the next few weeks.
If my name is in the contract as “mission essential” and the government accepts the contract (which they are very likely to do, or they lose ALL the contractors at this location, which isn’t a low number or either people or projects), then for the contractor to be in compliance with the contract, they will need to be able to produce … well… me. The only way they will be able to guarantee that they can have me on site is to hire me away from the recruiter. If they don’t, I can call my recruiter at any time and say, “Okay, I finished my 6 month contract, I am tired of the commute.. or I am tired of the carpeting…or I am tired of the aftershave of the guy next to me…” or whatever I want to use as an excuse and my recruiter will find me a different contract somewhere else. So, if they are negotiating this next month sometime, I expect that in the next 4-6 weeks, I will be seeing a contract float across my desk. It looks like the 99% is really 100%.
