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Acquisition Archetypes: Underbidding the Contract

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From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure.
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Software Engineering Institute

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Abstract

The concept of bidding on a government contract is deceptively simple. Underbidding is a tactic that complicates all aspects of the process.

From the Acquisition Support Program, one in a series of short papers on acquisition patterns of failure. Acquisition Archetypes is an exploration of patterns of failure in software acquisition using systems thinking concepts.