# 52.207-4 Economic Purchase Quantity—Supplies.
Type: Provision
Prescribed in: 7.203
Current version date: AUG 1987

## Prescription and Applicability

### FAR Prescription, 7.203

Contracting officers shall insert the provision at 52.207-4, Economic Purchase Quantity-Supplies, in solicitations for supplies. The provision need not be inserted if the solicitation is for a contract under the General Services Administration's multiple award schedule contract program, or if the contracting officer determines that-

(a) The Government already has the data;

(b) The data is otherwise readily available; or

(c) It is impracticable for the Government to vary its future requirements.

## Current Text

52.207-4 Economic Purchase Quantity—Supplies.

As prescribed in 7.203, insert the following provision:

Economic Purchase Quantity—Supplies (AUG 1987)

(a) Offerors are invited to state an opinion on whether the quantity(ies) of supplies on which bids, proposals or quotes are requested in this solicitation is (are) economically advantageous to the Government.

(b) Each offeror who believes that acquisitions in different quantities would be more advantageous is invited to recommend an economic purchase quantity. If different quantities are recommended, a total and a unit price must be quoted for applicable items. An economic purchase quantity is that quantity at which a significant price break occurs. If there are significant price breaks at different quantity points, this information is desired as well.

Offeror Recommendations

Item

Quantity

Price quotation

Total

(c) The information requested in this provision is being solicited to avoid acquisitions in disadvantageous quantities and to assist the Government in developing a data base for future acquisitions of these items. However, the Government reserves the right to amend or cancel the solicitation and resolicit with respect to any individual item in the event quotations received and the Government's requirements indicate that different quantities should be acquired.

(End of provision)

[50 FR 35479, Aug. 30, 1985, as amended at 52 FR 30078, Aug. 12, 1987]

## Suggested Questions

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- Should I include this provision in my solicitation?
- Does this clause apply to commercial acquisitions?
- Does this clause apply to R&D contracts under Part 35?
- Which alternate should I use for a multiple-award contract?
- Are there any active Class Deviations that modify this clause?
- What changed in the most recent amendment?

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