QUESTION $2$

It is $5$ September $2023,$ and you are an administrative law attorney currently serving in Korea in the Regional Command Office of the Staff Judge Advocate. The Chief of the Administrative Law Division $($your boss$)$ is at the Hale Koa resort in Hawaii on R&R leave, you are alone in the office, and you can't reach anyone at the administrative law office to assist you. The Chief of Staff, COL Coffee, requests an immediate legal opinion regarding an issue of utmost importance and urgency. The Division Commander wants a refrigerator for the main level of the building where his quarters are located The main level is used for occasional high$-$level meetings the commander wants to hold in a more private and intimate setting than the division conference room in the adjacent division headquarters building. The refrigerator will be used by the commander and those with whom he is meeting to store their food so they are not interrupted by having to eat at the Dining Facility $($DFAC$).$ The commander will also allow his personal staff $($aide$,$ driver, etc$)$ to use the refrigerator when there are no meetings taking place. The Chief of Staff found the particular refrigerator the commander wants $($total cost $$1600),$ and if the contracting office can order the refrigerator by the end of the month, the company can deliver it by $10$ October $2023.$ The commander wants the refrigerator immediately, but $10$ October $2023$ is the earliest date any company can deliver.Assuming that the purchase satisfies a proper purpose of an appropriated fund, under what theory might this purchase be authorized right now?

The Theory of Relativity.

The Stock Level Exception to the Bona Fide Needs Rule

The Necessary Expense Doctrine.

The Delivery Lead Time Exception to the Bona Fide Needs Rule.