A cost-plus government contract.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

We reward them with no-bid and cost-plus contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five little words that say all that needs to be said.] Reference

They are giving out cost-plus contracts as we speak.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 22, 2005] Reference

Government's agent on a transparent cost-plus basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

With cost-plus contracts, the government assumes the risk.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 12, 2006] Reference

He proposed eliminating cost-plus contracts in the military!!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foreign Policy Debate All About Wars] Reference

We saw that the corporation works on a kind of cost-plus basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's Behind the Lemming Urge?] Reference

For the rest it's still unlimited, no-bid, cost-plus party time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Congress and the Culture of CRUELTY] Reference

The US gave out cost-plus contracts to largely U.S. corporations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq Should Pay - Right, Left, Wrong] Reference

But it's also a situation where we have these cost-plus contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2009] Reference

That worked under the old cost-plus (variable) system of compensation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deane Waldman: Why Are Health Care Costs So High? What Should We Do?] Reference

Who continues to renew cost-plus contracts for non-performing corporations?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Iraq Should Pay - Right, Left, Wrong] Reference

Also, terminate or seriously limit cost-plus contracts and use the COTS format.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leroy Chiao Seeks Your Input - NASA Watch] Reference

This is a cost-plus situation fraught with mostly unregulated monopoly pricing practices.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Real Revolution in the Making in the US Health Care Industry] Reference

Special service, not listed in the master price schedule, was supplied on a cost-plus basis.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

The Mad Hatters worked under a cost-plus contract that guaranteed a profit above what was spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Candaele: R.I.P. Shane Ratliff, Halliburton Whistleblower] Reference

By its very nature, it is destined to be nothing more than a cost-plus project with very little plus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Energy—a Sign of Future Tension] Reference

But this madness does make sense under a cost-plus contract that guarantees a profit above what is spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Candaele: On Class And Corruption] Reference

We will end unnecessary no-bid and cost-plus contracts that run up a bill that is paid by the American people.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 4, 2009] Reference

Their no-bid cost-plus contracts saved the company at a time when they were reeling from asbestos lawsuitsin 2000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eight Year Plan: Part 1] Reference

In general, we also talked about the need for more competition and contracts for justification for cost-plus contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009] Reference

Apparently the Gas Council is prepared to offer only a cost-plus price for gas, based on cost plus a profit of about 10%.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impact of Natural Gas on the United Kingdom] Reference

In the short term I would divert a significant part of the budget away from cost-plus tasks and towards the COTS approach.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leroy Chiao Seeks Your Input - NASA Watch] Reference

Production companies have to explore new business models and forms compensations that go beyond the cost-plus scheme. reply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google PPC Video Ads – Why I’m Betting Against It] Reference

After all, Federal cost-plus contracts guarantee that contractors make profits, even when they fail to produce actual results.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frank Naif: NSA Ill-Suited for Domestic Cybersecurity Role] Reference

In looking at the matter of price I think that people are naive if they assume that a simple cost-plus type of mechanism will work.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Impact of Natural Gas on the United Kingdom] Reference

Meanwhile, these cost-plus contracts, the contractors themselves will walk away with tens of millions, hundreds of millions in profit.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 21, 2005] Reference

Instead of maximizing competition, the Administration opted to award no-bid, cost-plus contracts to politically connected contractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [If Waxman Were to Act] Reference

When they work cost-plus contracts for the government, they work much more like a government bureaucracy than a private-sector company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Remembering Apollo 11 and the Legacy of Apollo - NASA Watch] Reference

And in some ways, even worse, they were what's called "cost-plus" contracts, which means, the contractor is rewarded if they spend more money.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 24, 2007] Reference

The very suggestion is obscene when, at the same time the federal government is putting out cost-plus contracts to construction and contractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2005] Reference

Prior to 1994, amendments were introduced to change the price setting formula in grain industries from a cost-plus to a more market-oriented system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussion Documents for Commissions] Reference

The war had been outsourced, privatized, and the likes of Kellog Brown and Root were not so privately robbing the country blind with cost-plus contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Candaele: Iraq Still for Sale] Reference

And whereas government agencies tend to favor cheaper bids, the fact that logcap is cost-plus means that KBR benefits from accepting the most expensive offer.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Rose on Iraq profiteers] Reference

Do you believe employers who hire illegal aliens to fill jobs in the Gulf Coast region should be fined, arrested, left alone, or awarded more cost-plus contracts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2005] Reference

I think that we have to return -- particularly in defense spending, which is the largest part of our appropriations -- we have to do away with cost-plus contracts.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2008] Reference

Why should they have risked offending the then-administrator and jeopardize their multi-billion cost-plus contracts, just for the sub-billion dollar COTS contracts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [NASA Budget Update - NASA Watch] Reference