Cost-Plus-Percentage Contract

Cost-Plus-Percentage Contract
An agreement on a construction project where the contractor earns a specified percentage profit over the actual costs incurred. This contract type is considered suboptimal due to reduced incentives for cost control. An alternative approach is the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract.

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