Changes to Award Fee Contracting Needed

摘要

The Award Fee has been the staple of Air Force incentive arrangements for the past 25 years or more. It offers the opportunity to leverage performance through the use of subjective criteria and gives power to the Fee Determining Official (FDO) unlike almost any other contract type. The Space & Missile Systems Center is reviewing the use of Award Fee Incentives in light of a December 2005 GAO report that was highly critical of the way fees have been awarded on programs that have not performed as well as predicted.