Prime-Contractor & Fixed-Price Delivery
Delivery contracted to a single prime or a small set of large vendors under fixed-price or exclusive terms — Queensland Health's fixed-price IBM payroll contract, NASA's 'faster, better, cheaper' prime-contractor Mars Climate Orbiter build, Denver's single-vendor baggage system, the NHS's exclusive contracts to large vendors, the Sydney Opera House's conventional contract, China's developer-contracted new towns, the Burj Khalifa's single main-contract joint venture and Palm Jumeirah's specialist marine contractors.
8 Investigations
Prime-Contractor & Fixed-Price Delivery appears in 8 Project Insider Asia investigations, covering Governance, Billion Dollar Failures, Corporate Disasters, Megaprojects, Buildings and Land Reclamation. Featured: Queensland Health Payroll, Mars Climate Orbiter and Denver Airport Baggage System and 5 more.
Queensland Health Payroll
Queensland Health Payroll: How a A$6.19 Million Contract Developed Into…
Mars Climate Orbiter
Pound-Force, Newtons and the Systems-Engineering Failure Behind a…
Denver Airport Baggage System
The Automated Baggage System That Delayed an Airport by 16 Months
NHS National Programme for IT
NHS National Programme for IT: What Was Delivered, What Was Abandoned…
Sydney Opera House
The A$102 Million Project That Became a Priceless National Icon
China's Ghost Cities
China's Ghost Cities: How Rapid Urban Expansion Ran Ahead of Demand
Burj Khalifa: The Supertall Megaproject That Finished on Time in a Financial Storm
How Emaar, SOM and Samsung C&T Delivered the World's Tallest Building…
Palm Jumeirah: The Island That Engineering Built and the Crash Nearly Sank
GPS-Guided Dredging, a Crescent Breakwater and an Honest Ledger: Marine…
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