The cost will be considerably less than the fees contract customers pay monthly to use an iPhone — once you get past the upfront price of the phone itself.
It would, however, promote more efficient provision of public services, in much the same way that contingent fee contracts often promote more efficient provision of services in the private sector.
But even flat-fee contracts can cause problems, if the system is implicitly tuned to recoup that fee by, in effect, setting a quota of tickets to be issued.Karen Finley, the boss of Redflex Traffic Systems, one of the three largest vendors, denies any such conflict of interest.
We propose and compare two types of failure fee contracts: a brand-by-brand contract and a uniform contract.
At other HMOs fixed-fee contracts mean doctors lose money if they see a patient more than a few times a year.
We weren't getting enough fee contracts to cover overhead because the economy slowed due to 9/11 and the dot com crash, and I ran out of cash.
Between 1 July 1940 and 10 December 1941, the Construction Division let contracts worth $1,676,293,000 $$ with inflation ), of which $1,347,991,000 $$ with inflation ), or about 80 per cent, were fixed-fee contracts.
Talbot said some governments prefer flat-fee contracts, including the one the State Highway Administration has with the firm, while others opt to pay Xerox a percentage.
The cost-plus-fee contracts of the past should be NASA's last resort, chosen only if a more efficient option is infeasible.
Logisticians are paid according to fixed-fee contracts that clearly define requirements and penalties based on stockout rates and data availability.
