Esculating Procurement Cost

[Digital_Trucker]

Or make the contractor deliver the product at the price they bid and at the time they bid being able to deliver.

[SUBMAN1]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Or make the contractor deliver the product at the price they bid and at the time they bid being able to deliver.

That might make people wise up!

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trucker

Or make the contractor deliver the product at the price they bid and at the time they bid being able to deliver.

There won't be many contractors left after the that goes through. I do believe that it does need to be tightned up to stop these contractor ripping off the taxpayer (Not just the US, Australia as well!)

[JALU3]

Well this goes for any defense contract regardless of nation, I am just writing from a US perspective due to the resources available to me and I am interested in my own nation's defense precurements. Many recent contracts that seem to have been going smoothly have been cut, and then restarted, thus increasing cost, which is the governments fault. Some of the contracts appear to be duplicates of similar weapons systems, that could have been done jointly. Some contracts have just been poorly mis-managed and have ballooned in cost.
I understand that military hardware has requirements that are above and beyond their civilian counterparts, or are not even within the civilian spectrum, but I find it hard to believe that those requirements cannot be meet within a reasonable time frame, and budget.