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[quote user="henry6"] Nothing unsual in the provision as most major contracts have such a clause....it is there so that additional purchase would be at the same price, the price being held for a specific amount of time.  The idea being that if Amtrak bought 10 at $X.00 and wanted more, supplier would still charge $X.00 and not $2X.00 or $3X.00. [/quote] It would be a rare, not to mention foolish, manufacturing company that would agree to a conditional contract, extending over many years, not to have an escalation clause in a contract to cover unexpected costs.  For example, if the contractor agreed to supply additional items at such and such a price over months or years beyond the original order time span, he could quickly lose his shirt if inflation took off during the interim, and he had not allowed for cost escalation.
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