THE CONTINGENT PRICING PROBLEM: SOME CONSIDERATIONS IN FORMULATING QUALITY INCENTIVES

Abstract

The primary point made is that government negotiators must allow for sampling variation and the fact that contractors will consider expected results as well as explicit payment scheduled.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1965
Accession Number
AD0614993

Entities

People

  • Eugene P. Durbin

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Consumers
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Cost Overruns
  • Costs
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Incentive Contracts
  • Linear Programming
  • Motivation
  • Probability
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Quality Control
  • Random Variables

Readers

  • Industrial Economics
  • International Relations and Conflict Resolution
  • Systems Analysis and Design