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An Analysis Of The Estimate At Complete For Department Of Defense Contracts, Deborah B. Kim
An Analysis Of The Estimate At Complete For Department Of Defense Contracts, Deborah B. Kim
Theses and Dissertations
When contractors provide timely and reliable information on the status of a contract, both contractors and government program offices can provide an accurate estimate of a contract’s completion costs. This research shows that the cumulative cost performance indices provided by contractors and program offices are high and less accurate than those of previous years and/or that a significant amount of ACWP is being documented in the final portion of a contract. The high performance indices resulted in EACs that were low-balled during the majority of a contract’s life which shows a need to improve the use of EVM metrics for …