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[CITE: 10USC2384a]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
            CHAPTER 141--MISCELLANEOUS PROCUREMENT PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 2384a. Supplies: economic order quantities

    (a)(1) An agency referred to in section 2303(a) of this title shall 
procure supplies in such quantity as (A) will result in the total cost 
and unit cost most advantageous to the United States, where practicable, 
and (B) does not exceed the quantity reasonably expected to be required 
by the agency.
    (2) The Secretary of Defense shall take paragraph (1) into account 
in approving rates of obligation of appropriations under section 2204 of 
this title.
    (b) Each solicitation for a contract for supplies shall, if 
practicable, include a provision inviting each offeror responding to the 
solicitation to state an opinion on whether the quantity of the supplies 
proposed to be procured is economically advantageous to the United 
States and, if applicable, to recommend a quantity or quantities which 
would be more economically advantageous to the United States. Each such 
recommendation shall include a quotation of the total price and the unit 
price for supplies procured in each recommended quantity.

(Added Pub. L. 98-525, title XII, Sec. 1233(a), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 Stat. 
2600.)


                             Effective Date

    Section 1233(b) of Pub. L. 98-525 provided that: ``The amendment 
made by subsection (a) [enacting this section] shall take effect at the 
end of the 180-day period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
Act [Oct. 19, 1984].''
