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agriculture. Limited-liability contracts create an environment of moral hazard in learning investment and adverse selection in the … liability contracts realizes project scales 25-30% smaller than optimal. Learning-induced cost reductions in the production of … biomass are 20% less than predicted by engineering analyses. Limited-liability contracts raise the price paid by the principal …
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In this essay, I will identify one theoretical source of the common antipathy towards form contracts and why it is … misguided. I contend that the hostility towards form contracts stems in important part from an implicit adoption of a promise … contracts can be seen as entirely legitimate-though some form terms may properly be subject to judicial scrutiny that would be …
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in terms of the design of contracts and to the policy maker in terms of regulating the insurance market. After a short …
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Ten basic contracting strategies were developed after a review of past strategies that had been used at the Hanford Site, other US Department of Energy (DOE) sites, other US government agencies, and in the private sector. As applicable to the Low-Level Waste Vitrification Plant (LLWVP) Project,...
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trucks due to equipment and operational issues; late placement of melter contracts; and the Multi-Function Waste Tank …
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The Western Area Power Administration (Western) was founded by the Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977 to market and transmit federal hydroelectric power in 15 western states outside the Pacific Northwest, which is served by the Bonneville Power Administration. Western is divided into...
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the cost-reimbursement contracts examined was recurring and could have been estimated with a reasonable degree of accuracy … awarding fixed-price contracts. Procurement recognized the benefits of fixed-price contracting and agreed to work closely with … contracts but no firm-fixed-price contracts. The purpose of this followup audit was to review Procurement and EIA actions to …
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continue the examination of RFPs, but also survey the details of long term contracts that have emerged from competitive bidding …. Contracts provide a new level of specific detail that has not been previously available. 68 refs., 13 figs., 25 tabs. …
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met with then Deputy Secretary of Energy Henson Moore and asserted that an inability to obtain long term gas contracts … requested by the Deputy Secretary to address the issues surrounding long-term gas contracts and supply reliability. The … relationship between supply reliability and contracts is explained in terms of the number of buyers and sellers in a market. With …
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Data reported by domestic nuclear utility companies in their responses to the 1991 through 1993 ``Uranium Industry Annual Survey,`` Form EIA-858, Schedule B,`` Uranium Marketing Activities,`` are provided in response to the requirements in the Energy Policy Act 1992. Appendix A contains an...
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