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- From: mbradley@terapin.com (Michael Bradley)
- Newsgroups: misc.jobs.contract
- Subject: Re: contract payment methods question
- Message-ID: <mbradley.2zun@terapin.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:05:51 GMT
- References: <01010064.m1g7b4@titipu.resun.com>
- Organization: BBS
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- >bobert@informix.com (Robert Murphy) writes:
- >> Well, over 80% of the bugs that have been reported against our project
- >> have turned out to be in the client's libraries. ... In the future, what
- >> should we do? Should we build an automatic price increase into our
- >> contracts for extra work caused by client screw-ups? Are there other,
- >> better ways of dealing with this sort of thing?
- >
- Murphy should renegotiate the contract. The bugs they're fixing are not their
- own, so they have no responsibility for them and should not be fixing them
- until they have added fixing them to the scope of work in their contract.
-
- In general, fixed price contracts are no different from any other contract.
- They are always subject to renegotiation.
-