Shader Contractors, Inc. And Citizens National Bank of Orlando, Assignee v. United States

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the buyer in a requirements contract “implicitly promises that he will obtain his required goods or services from the [supplier] exclusively”
• stating that while estimates are not guarantees or warranties of quantity, they are “figures which the bidders might reasonably employ so as to make realistic quotations”
• rejecting the argument that the contract bound the government to order the estimated quantity of services: “The figures given as estimates were that and nothing more. They were not guarantees or warranties of quantity ....”
• “we must assume that any ... risk of loss was considered by the parties, and that the accepted contract price bid reflected a satisfactory resolution of the risk”
• “Ordinarily, where the quantity ordered is considerably more or considerably less than that anticipated from a reading of the contract terms, the courts will protect the aggrieved party from unfair usage by applying a test of good faith to the other party’s actions.”
• maximum and minimum estimates of the buyers requirements

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).