This sounds like two things: a badly written contract, and a company working in it's singular best interest. Making it so that best interests of all parties ar

This sounds like two things: a badly written contract, and a company working in it's singular best interest. Making it so that best interests of all parties aren't at least somewhat aligned is usually a recipe for disaster. On example of this going right: there was a local public works project to widen a highway. The contract was written so that if the company working it completed the work early they got a small % bonus depending on how quickly it was complete. It got done early - the incentives were aligned properly. Yes, there are all the obvious caveats about correct quality standards and corners weren't cut, but that would be the case anyway.