# 552.216-70 Economic Price Adjustment—FSS Multiple Award Schedule Contracts.

As prescribed in 516.203-4(a), insert the following clause:

Economic Price Adjustment—FSS Multiple Award Schedule Contracts (Sep1999)

Price adjustments include price increases and price decreases. Adjustments will be considered as follows:

1. (a) Contractors shall submit price decreases anytime during the contract period in which they occur. Price decreases will be handled in accordance with the provisions of the Price Reduction Clause.

2. (b) Contractors may request price increases under the following conditions:

   1. (1) Increases resulting from a reissue or other modification of the Contractor’s commercial catalog/pricelist that was used as the basis for the contract award.

   2. (2) Only three increases will be considered during the contract period.

   3. (3) Increases are requested after the first 30days of the contract period and prior to the last 60days of the contract period.

   4. (4) At least 30days elapse between requested increases.

3. (c) The aggregate of the increases in any contract unit price under this clause shall not exceed * percent of the original contract unit price. The Government reserves the right to raise this ceiling where changes in market conditions during the contract period support an increase.

4. (d) The following material shall be submitted with the request for a price increase:

   1. (1) A copy of the commercial catalog/pricelist showing the price increase and the effective date for commercial customers.

   2. (2) Commercial Sales Practice format regarding the Contractor’s commercial pricing practice relating to the reissued or modified catalog/price- list, or a certification that no change has occurred in the data since completion of the initial negotiation or a subsequent submission.

   3. (3) Documentation supporting the reasonableness of the price increase.

5. (e) The Government reserves the right to exercise one of the following options:

   1. (1) Accept the Contractor’s price increases as requested when all conditions of (b), (c), and (d) of this clause are satisfied;

   2. (2) Negotiate more favorable discounts from the new commercial prices when the total increase requested is not supported; or,

   3. (3) Remove the product(s) from contract involved pursuant to the Cancellation Clause of this contract, when the increase requested is not supported.

6. (f) The contract modification reflecting the price adjustment shall be signed by the Government and made effective upon receipt of notification from the Contractor that the new catalog/pricelist has been mailed to the addressees previously furnished by the Contracting Officer, provided that in no event shall such price adjustment be effective prior to the effective date of the commercial price increases. The increased contract prices shall apply to delivery orders issued to the Contractor on or after the effective date of the contract modification.

*Insert the percent appropriate at the time the solicitation is issued. This percentage should normally be 10 percent, unless based on a trend established by an appropriate index such as the Producer Prices and Price Index during the most recent 6-month period indicates that a different percentage is more appropriate. Any ceiling other than 10 percent must be approved by the contracting director.

(End of clause)

Alternate I (Sep 1999). As prescribed by 516.203-4(a)(2), substitute the following for paragraphs (b) and (c) of the clause:

(b) Contractors may request price increases to be effective on or after the first 12 months of the contract period providing all of the following conditions are met:

1. 1. (1) Increases resulting from a reissue or other modification of the Contractor’s commercial catalog/pricelist that was used as the basis for the contract award.

   2. (2) No more than three increases will be considered during each succeeding 12-month period of the contract.(For succeeding contract periods of less than 12months, up to three increases will be considered subject to the other conditions of this paragraph (b)).

   3. (3) Increases are requested before the last 60days of the contract period.

   4. (4) At least 30 days elapse between requested increases.

(c) Any contract period during which price increases will be considered, the aggregate of the increases during any 12-month period shall not exceed _____* percent of the contract unit price in effect at the end of the preceding 12-month period. The Government reserves the right to raise the ceiling when market conditions during the contract period support such a change.

*Insert the percentage appropriate at the time the solicitation is issued. This percentage should be determined based on the trend established by an appropriate index such as the Producer Prices and Price Index. A ceiling of more than 10percent must be approved by the Contracting Director.