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When you're signing contracts at DoD scale, typically you negotiate a "vendor can only increase prices X amount per year" clause. Companies that get screwed ar
by ethbro 8y ago
When you're signing contracts at DoD scale, typically you negotiate a "vendor can only increase prices X amount per year" clause.
Companies that get screwed are those who aren't big enough to negotiate that kind of deal up front.
But no, a Top 50 or large government type contract is never going to be at the mercy of unexpected price hikes.
- tyingq 8y agoThey will, though, be at a disadvantage in pace of new features, hardware refresh, etc. The gov version will lag far behind the general offering. It's also possible the general offering will go down in relative pricing, like cost/mb or same price, but faster CPU.