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Biggs, Carl T. |
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Implications of transaction costs for acquisition program cost breaches |
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School |
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It is generally accepted that cost growth in federal major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs) is partially attributable to inaccurate cost estimates. Cost analysts exhaustively analyze manpower and resources to provide accurate estimates, however the influence of transaction costs is often ignored in traditional cost estimates. This thesis investigates the association between cost growth and transaction costs, the real cost of business negotiations and program management. We collect MDAP cost threshold breach data and cross reference it with a proxy for MDAP transaction costs (Systems Engineering/Program Management Costs) to determine whether a correlation exists. We use multiple logistic regression models to analyze the binary outcome of breach or no breach. The results show that for MDAPs with cost-plus contracts there is a statistically significant relation between the likelihood of a cost threshold breach occurring and the relative magnitude of the MDAPs transaction costs; no such relation exists for fixed price contracts. Although these results show an association between cost threshold breaches and transaction costs, there is no evidence of causality between these two variables and our exploration of causality is a topic for future research. Subjects: Transaction Costs;Costs Breaches;System Engineering/Program Management Cost.; Transaction Costs; Costs Breaches; System Engineering/Program Management Cost. |
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Language | English | |
Publication date | June 2013 | |
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Short title | Implications of transaction costs for acquisition program cost breaches |
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Author | Biggs, Carl T. |
Software used | Biggs, Carl T. |
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Page size | 612 x 792 pts (letter) |
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