Cambridge, which is leading the procurement, has not published the expected costs of the deal.
Insurance companies were also shunned because of the expected costs of claims that will be coming.
In all these cases, I think the expected costs of inaction vastly outweighed, and outweigh, the costs of government intervention.
Last year VW set aside €6.7bn to cover the expected costs of recalling of about 11m diesel vehicles.
Cigna increased reserves by $9 million in the third quarter to help cover the expected costs of the settlement.
The idea is that would-be criminals rationally weigh up the expected costs and benefits of breaking the rules.
If you have no idea what the endgame is, it is simply impossible to calculate the expected costs — strategic, political, financial, moral — of intervention.
But over all, it said, the value of the public benefits, estimated at $54 billion, exceeds the expected costs of $23 billion.
The bill, which accounts for about half of federal discretionary spending, includes only a small part of the expected costs of next year's military operations in Iraq.
The bill was facing great resistance because of the expected costs to the state, perhaps many hundreds of millions of dollars.
As the number of firms with implicit government backing has risen because of the crisis, so too have the expected costs of those commitments, Mr. Phaup said.
