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B-224004.2,B-224005.2 1 (1987-04-10)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadmqr0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Comptroller General of the United States Washington, D.C. 20548 IT Decision Matter of: Mills Manufacturing Corporation--Reconsideration File: B-224004.2; B-224005.2 Date: April 10, 1987 DIGEST 1. Agency properly procured its needs for parachutes under requirements type contracts with ordering periods of 2 years and 3 years, respectively, rather than under a multiyear type procurement, where the agency was uncertain as to how many units it would need over the contract period. Multiyear con- tracting format requires that quantity solicited remain substantially unchanged throughout contract term. 2. In a solicitation calling for a requirements contract,_ an agency need only state a realistic estimate of its requirements for the goods being procured based on most current information available. Although agency admits its needs are difficult to predict, precise or certain statement of quantity is not required since such a requirement would vitiate the purposes of employing a requirements contract format and protester has not shown estimate is not realistic. 3. Letters from a contractor's suppliers which indicate that those suppliers will not make long-range price commitments do not constitute clear and convincing evidence that the con- tracting agency acted unreasonably or arbitrarily in choosing to employ a requirement type contract to satisfy several years' needs. DECISION Mills Manufacturing Corporation requests that we reconsider our decision in Mills Manufacturing Corp., B-224004, B-224005, Dec. 18, 1986, 86-2 C.P.D. I 679, that the Army Troop Support Command properly issued two solicitations for requirements contracts for periods of more than 1 year under Federal Acquisition Regulation /FAR), 48 C.F.R. q 16.50 (1986), for the purchase of personnel and personnel reserve parachutes. We affirm our decision. o~670

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