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Incentives in Government Contracting /

Could the existing level of government services by provided at a lower cost? This study presents a convincing argument for incentive contracts as a means to this end. In a typical market economy, payments from the government to firms account for about one-half of government spending (excluding trans...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: McAfee, R. Preston (Autor), McMillan, John (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
Colección:Heritage
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Figures --   |t Tables --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t 1. Government Contracting --   |t 2. Uncertainty and Incentives --   |t 3. The Optimal Contract --   |t 4. Competition in Bidding --   |t 5. Simulations with Incentive Contracts --   |t 6. United States Military Contracting --   |t 7. Ontario Contracting Rules --   |t 8. Ontario Contracting Practices --   |t 9. Domestic Preferences in Government Procurement --   |t 10. Privatization --   |t 11. Summary of Results and Recommendations --   |t References --   |t Indexes --   |t NAME INDEX 
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520 |a Could the existing level of government services by provided at a lower cost? This study presents a convincing argument for incentive contracts as a means to this end. In a typical market economy, payments from the government to firms account for about one-half of government spending (excluding transfer payments). By changing the way in which a government pays the firms from which it procures goods and services, it would be possible to maintain the existing array of government programs at a lower price. The major finding of this study is that governments could significantly reduce their expenditures by making extensive use of incentive contracts where they currently use either fixed-price contracts or cost-plus contracts. An incentive contract shares cost overruns and cost underruns between the government and the contractor according to a predetermined ratio. An incentive contract stimulates competition among the firms bidding for the contract and shares the project's risk between the government and the selected firm, while giving the contractor incentives to keep incurred costs low. In addition to advocating the use of incentive contracts, the study analyses the consequences of preferential treatment for domestic content over foreign content in government procurement, discusses the choice for a government agency between producing a commodity or service in-house and contracting for its provision with a private firm, and examines the experience with contracting of both the Ontario government and the United States Department of Defense in order to draw lessons for government contracting in general. 
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