Pricing and Cost Accounting, 3rd Edition

 

Preface

Government contracting is unique. Its intricacies often cannot be understood using common sense and experience in the commercial marketplace. The terminology alone is confusing to the uninitiated. However, the rules are not mysterious—they simply need to be understood. The purpose of this book is to help demystify the process of winning and carrying out a government contract.

Obtaining government business is often very different from obtaining commercial business, largely because extensive rules are in place to ensure fairness in the award of contracts that use public funds. Contractual arrangements with the government feature documents that contain numerous contract clauses, all of which need to be read and understood—even in the ...