Retaining Service Workers at End of Contract

A mulit-year services contract (currently small-business set aside) is ending in four months and the incumbent is not being awarded the contract. Instead, the agency is going to make the contract a JWOD (now known as AbilityOne), which will use half of its own employees. Thus, only half the existing employees under the incumbent contract will have jobs under the follow-on. Key is that the nondisplacement of workers clause does not apply to JWOD. Our concern is that the current employees, knowing only half of them will have jobs in a few months will leave for other employment, which we will leave us shorthanded with a lot of openings we cannot readily fill due to finding suitable employees, background clearances, union membership, training, etc... while we try and complete the contract without any performance issues.

The contract does not require that a fixed number of employees be present at any given, only that the requirements are met. Other than the obvious -- hire employees as other leave -- does anyone have any creative or not-so-obvious solutions to what must be a somewhat common but difficult contract administration issue.

Thanks.