Re:Companies made millions building unemployment websites th...
by aplummer on Friday July 17, 2020 @12:19PM
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> Fixed price deliverables are usually more expensive due to bidders pricing risk.
Correct, that’s the only way the vendor takes on the risk really. That was my point.
> Or the project owner don’t have the political power to not accept a deliverable and tell the vendor to go pound it.
Yeah I agree... but if you have 100m to hand out and the in org politics where you can’t tell a vendor to go pound it, there are real structural issues in your co preventing you delivering systems.
Correct, that’s the only way the vendor takes on the risk really. That was my point.
> Or the project owner don’t have the political power to not accept a deliverable and tell the vendor to go pound it.
Yeah I agree... but if you have 100m to hand out and the in org politics where you can’t tell a vendor to go pound it, there are real structural issues in your co preventing you delivering systems.