Medart, Inc. v. Richard G. Austin, Administrator, General Services Administration

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• explaining that the existence of a different method of estimating does not make the government’s method unreasonable
• explaining that although “actual purchases vary[ing] significantly from government estimates does not ordinarily give rise to liability on the part of the government . . . the government must act in good faith and use reasonable care in computing its estimated needs”
• “the risks associated with variance between actual purchases and estimated quantities are allocated to the contractor”
• “[Pjresumably contractors rely on the proffered estimates in formulating their bids____”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).