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The fact that a small number of contracts can determine a company's profit outlook for a decade places a premium on low-balling bids (which leads, almost inevitably, to cost overruns) and influence-currying.
Other appropriate subheadings might include "cost overruns," "bailout," and "crash and burn."
For instance, improperly defined requirements may preclude alternatives, restrict competition, increase the risk of cost and schedule overruns, and lead to systems that are inconsistent with an agency's overall architecture and incompatible with other agency systems.
But, says the paper, since the building opened with huge cost overruns, there has been tremendous reticence to create a strong visible security presence that would cut down on revenue by discouraging the public from visiting the retail stores, restaurants and convention facilities in the building.
It is a matter of auditor judgment to decide how discrepant project estimates and estimates provided by cost models should be to raise concerns about risks of cost and schedule overruns.