Vern-
Thanks for the reply.
Admittedly, I missed the clause. DOH! That is what I get for working past 2100!
What I will coach my folks to do in the future when dealing with MATO contract is avoid the local caluse and fully address the maximum in the schedule (as the clause requires) being sure to explain it as the total maximum of all MATO contracts. That way, the individual contract holders understand their maximum is the shared MATO maximum.
Of course if this was a requirements contract I was speaking of, 52.216-21 -- Requirements, would apply and the max is the single max.