---
kind: "section"
citation: "41 U.S.C. § 3310"
title: "41"
title_heading: "Public Contracts"
number: "3310"
heading: "Quantities to order"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/41/3310"
units:
  - "Subtitle I — Federal Procurement Policy"
  - "Division C — Procurement"
  - "Chapter 33 — Planning and Solicitation"
---

# §3310. Quantities to order

- (a) **Factors Affecting Quantity To Order.—** Each [executive agency](/usc/41/3302.md?p=a-1) shall procure [supplies](/usc/41/115.md) in a quantity that—
  - (1) will result in the total cost and unit cost most advantageous to the Federal Government, where practicable; and
  - (2) does not exceed the quantity reasonably expected to be required by the agency.
- (b) **Offeror’s Opinion of Quantity.—** Each solicitation for a contract for [supplies](/usc/41/115.md) shall, if practicable, include a provision inviting each offeror responding to the solicitation to state an opinion on whether the quantity of [supplies](/usc/41/115.md) proposed to be procured is economically advantageous to the Federal Government and, if applicable, to recommend a quantity that would be more economically advantageous to the Federal Government. Each recommendation shall include a quotation of the total price and the unit price for [supplies](/usc/41/115.md) procured in each recommended quantity.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 111–350, § 3, Jan. 4, 2011, 124 Stat. 3761.)

## Notes

| Historical and Revision Notes |  |  |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Revised<br>Section | Source (U.S. Code) | Source (Statutes at Large) |
| 3310 | 41:253f. | June 30, 1949, ch. 288, title III, § 303F, formerly § 303G, as added Pub. L. 98–577, title II, § 205(a), Oct. 30, 1984, 98 Stat. 3073; renumbered § 303F, Pub. L. 99–145, title XIII, § 1304(c)(4)(A), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 742. |

In subsection (b), the words “or quantities” are omitted because of 1:1.