Read the contract and the VIPs Bidding Procedures page and need the APC experts to check my public math and assumptions while waiting for the office to open on Monday.

Conundrum: Need 14ish days that cover end of one bid month and beginning of next one. I may need to get creative to cover the possibility that I can't hold the desired 2-slot/14day Vac period.

Question comes that If I split my vac into blocks of 10, 8, and 8 days, it leaves 3 days left over. The VIPs page says that for a bid to be 'valid' you can't leave less than 7 days unawarded for the next bid (not explicitly stated in the contract).

Soooo, would I get to bid 3 times and have a few buy-back days, Or only get to bid twice and have a lot of left over days?

Anybody got better strategies to share?