At the absolute minimum the contract is going to drive a vacancy bid very soon, if they want to continue hiring.

The contract stipulates that unfilled vacancies expire after 92 days from the award date for the vacancy bid in which they occurred. So, The November vacancy award unfilleds expire on Wednesday and the December vacancy award unfilleds expire on March 16th.

The contract requires that any vacancy bid be open for a minimum of 10 days.

So those two things together mean that you could theoretically see the next vacancy bid posted as late as Mar 6th (or Mar 4th since that is a Friday), but that would be cutting it really close.

So, I would expect this week or next at the very least