Comments on: The hybrid, fixed price/T&M deal http://blog.osirra.com/2009/09/26/the-hybrid-fixed-pricetm-deal/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:35:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: SLATFATF http://blog.osirra.com/2009/09/26/the-hybrid-fixed-pricetm-deal/comment-page-1/#comment-4176 SLATFATF Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:24:24 +0000 http://blog.osirra.com/?p=3261#comment-4176 Or, the supplier signs up to a fixed price deal ridiculously low priced to win the work. Then questions the scope post signing and change controls things until the price now resembles something achievable. At that point delivery begins under fixed price and the supplier mucks up the project leading to losses. So the supplier enforces further work to contract until the government is blackmailed into paying over large amounts of cash to the incompetent supplier. Or they walk and leave government with a steaming pile. Then, they hire them again for the next project. Or, the supplier signs up to a fixed price deal ridiculously low priced to win the work. Then questions the scope post signing and change controls things until the price now resembles something achievable. At that point delivery begins under fixed price and the supplier mucks up the project leading to losses. So the supplier enforces further work to contract until the government is blackmailed into paying over large amounts of cash to the incompetent supplier.

Or they walk and leave government with a steaming pile.

Then, they hire them again for the next project.

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