ADJECTIVE
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determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit
a cost-plus government contract
How To Use cost-plus In A Sentence
- The government would fund the railways on a cost-plus basis for four years while the company got to grips with its costs and management structure.
- The contract was found to be a cost-plus contract with a $65,000 ‘estimate’ and a fixed contractor's fee of $5,000.
- In the lecture he also examined the notions of cost and cost accounting in relation to the pricing of cost-plus contracts during the second World War.
- The price range between the lower cost-plus price and the higher value-based price signifies the additional profits available to a manufacturer that charges a value-based price for its product.
- A cost-plus contract provides that the owner will reimburse the contractor for all construction costs and pay a fee for his services.
- By limiting the number of projects for which it will compete, it will work only on a cost-plus basis where its risk is limited to its fee.
- The British and American governments gave serious attention to cost determination, pricing and the use of cost-plus pricing to guarantee the required production quantities.
- In 1940, Congress authorized cost-plus contracts and advance payments.
- The popularity of single-use products, however, mushroomed dramatically when their use was skewed by a reimbursement system that permitted all single-use items to be charged to the patient on a cost-plus basis.
- Selling solutions creates opportunities for value-based rather than cost-plus pricing.