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>who else could you hold responsible? The contractor who underbid. If Roger's submits a bid for $1m to deliver 50k widgets he shouldn't be able to come back af
by fr0sty 15y ago
>who else could you hold responsible?
The contractor who underbid. If Roger's submits a bid for $1m to deliver 50k widgets he shouldn't be able to come back after the fact and demand $4m to complete the project because he underestimated his costs.
- natep 15y agoYou gave a very simple example. Lets say the contract is to build widgets that frobulate. What if nobody has ever made widgets that frobulate? What if frobulating is poorly defined in the process, and what it means to frobulate changes over the course of the project? What if the government later decides they want widgets that barbulate in addition/instead? The contractor has to swallow all the extra costs, because they were foolish enough to sign a vague/wrong contract? I'm not asking this to suggest a particular answer, just wondering where this strategy takes us.
- mcguire 15y agoSomewhere other than the place that has the incentive for the contractor to hire large numbers of marginal employees in order to increase the contract's profit. [Edit: total profit, not margin.]