Not if I'm the guy settling the contract. But seriously, I come up with a cost estimate and then bid it out if the contractor can't do it for that. Usually they find out they can actually do it for that after I tell them it will be bid. In my case I like FFP because with cost+ they can pad up their costs, claiming and proving they have actuals for labor and material that just should have never happened in the first place. I suppose there are ups and downs to both but I never allow cost+ because then I know I'll be paying some people to sit around and do nothing.
All depends on oversight. Our foreign wars had little oversight on contracts. FFPs for generators that were never bought under the supervision of people who couldn’t independently account for anything.
Full time expat salaries for positions never filled.
Cost+ yeah they find things they don’t need to buy, but that still gets a baseline for 7% when the end government customer wants to spend 100% of the budget anyways.
Not if I'm the guy settling the contract. But seriously, I come up with a cost estimate and then bid it out if the contractor can't do it for that. Usually they find out they can actually do it for that after I tell them it will be bid. In my case I like FFP because with cost+ they can pad up their costs, claiming and proving they have actuals for labor and material that just should have never happened in the first place. I suppose there are ups and downs to both but I never allow cost+ because then I know I'll be paying some people to sit around and do nothing.
All depends on oversight. Our foreign wars had little oversight on contracts. FFPs for generators that were never bought under the supervision of people who couldn’t independently account for anything.
Full time expat salaries for positions never filled.
Cost+ yeah they find things they don’t need to buy, but that still gets a baseline for 7% when the end government customer wants to spend 100% of the budget anyways.
FFP is fraud central.