F-35 Block Buy–An Assessment of Potential Savings: Appendix B, Historical Case Studies of Multiyear Procurement and Block Buy Contracts

This appendix discusses historical implementation of multiyear procurement (MYP) and block buy (BB) contracts and how they compare. As context for an analysis of potential savings in an F-35 BB contract, it outlines the methodology and data sources for analyzing historical MYP and BB contracts and provides a high-level overview of trends observed across the case studies along with in-depth discussion of more-recent multiyear program case studies.