"contingent need" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to a need that only arises under certain circumstances. For example, "The family only had a contingent need for a bigger house if their daughter came home from college."
And there is the actual cost of getting the candidate and the large staff contingent needed for a debate to the site, including policy experts and press aides whose job is to tell reporters how well the candidate did.
Greater ease in communications as well as new managerial and organizational opportunities allow for highly flexible and fluid organizational forms, which are capable of adapting to contingent needs.
Other times, questions and hypotheses are induced by the observation of reality, or, however, by contingent needs, or are stimulated by opportunities of the moment but often independently of the concrete use of the results; the search path is frequently determined by the interest to give an answer to those questions just in order to fill a knowledge gap.
Britton does not believe Swansea's Spanish contingent will need too much guidance to realise just how significant the game will be.
The interventions for housing instability were individually-tailored, contingent on need, and provided by a licensed social worker experienced with resolving housing crises commonly occurring in lower income populations.
In this context, support from adult children has become more contingent upon needs of older parents such as their failing health and loss of a spouse (Brown et al. 2002; Takagi and Silverstein 2011).
It displays 2-3 additional contacts with the SV [Oversight and Compliance] contingent that we need to consider... but they do not appear to have any 'alarm' or 'concern' for illegal pr [program] questionable activities on the part NSA," the email said.
However, some observers have said this was only possible because the manufacturing and contingent energy use needed to fuel economic growth were taken on by developing countries such as China.
Richard Taylor (1992, 99 108) discusses the argument in terms of the universe (meaning everything that ever existed) being contingent and thus needing explanation.
