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You have already learned that the government generally enters into either fixed-price or cost-reimbursement contractual arrangements and that there are numerous hybrids and variants of each of these. As in all things governmental in the United States, the standard arrangements are soon known by their initial letters, or an acronym.
The alphabet soup continues: government contracts may be FP, CPFF, T & M, BOA, and many other types that are hybrids of basic contracting ideas.
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Holtz, H. (1979). The Mechanisms of Government Procurement. In: Government Contracts. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0982-6_6
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