No, my cites relate to the parent comment: Cost plus percentage gives a very clear incentive to raise costs Compare the original winning bid for the STS wit

No, my cites relate to the parent comment: Cost plus percentage gives a very clear incentive to raise costs Compare the original winning bid for the STS with the actual costs; I think they rose more than tenfold (and the per-flight cost rose more than that), IIRC. And had the competing team won, the Challenger disaster never would have happened, because the solid-rocket boosters would have been manufactured as units and transported to the Cape by barge rather than having to be broken into small enough components to fit on rail cars.