arrangement provides cooperation but poor discipline. The attractiveness of contracts is smaller, the less vertically integrated … highly integrated industries, contracts are used, while in less integrated industries business is done on handshakes. This …

of construction, operation and maintenance of the Heber Binary Cycle Geothermal Power Demonstration Plant are described …, (2) well field development costs, (3) fluid purchase costs, and (4) well field and power plant operation and maintenance …

agencies calculate overhead costs and apply to maintenance costs.* Description of Level of Service (LOS) programs developed and … subcontracts; and further develop a hybrid maintenance program where private contracts are used to supplement INDOT maintenance …INDOT initiated a study to investigate Performance Based Contracting of maintenance operations. One of the main impetus …

operator for a device. The service provider can exert different levels of maintenance effort during the course of the contract …-contractible. We obtain the optimal design of performance-based maintenance contracts in this context by singling out a unique uptime … advantages and limitations of offering menus of contracts to increase the service provider's expected profits …