The phrase "awards fee" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to contracts, procurement, or project management where a fee is awarded based on performance or achievement.
Example: "The contractor will receive an awards fee based on the successful completion of the project milestones."
Alternatives: "incentive fee" or "performance fee".
Less well known is that Army Corps overseers signed off on much of that work and, Mr. Bowen of the inspector general's office said, gave Parsons an award fee, indicating a job well done, on the academy.
If we win the job, we can get an award fee anywhere from a couple thousand to about $30,000.
Twice he was awarded fees that state monitors later found unusually high.
As a compromise for disabled plaintiffs, Congress also awarded fees to the lawyers that bring their discrimination cases.
Lockheed has already lost profits, earning only $28 million of a possible $87.5 million in award fees for meeting development goals in 2010 and 2011.
After the claims process is finished, Judge Friedman said, he expects to award fees of $50.3 to $90.8 million to be distributed among the class lawyers.
study in December found that the Pentagon had paid $8 billion in bonus award fees to military contractors regardless of whether performance goals were met.
Although there is no publicly available data on how much airlines collect in award fees, Mr. Winship pointed out that it was high enough to make the idea of a "free ticket" obsolete.
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that he was replacing the general in charge of the Pentagon's largest weapons program — the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — and withholding $614 million in award fees from the contractor, Lockheed Martin.
Perhaps the best solution would be to permit a contractual provision that provided that the court would have the discretion to award fees for time spent successfully defending a fee application.
