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Government Professional Services (GPS) workshop : session #4 : making GPS companies profitable

<p>Many of the companies had different business models in terms of how they planned to make the business profitable in terms of the types of projects or contracts that were pursued or in their bidding practices. On fixed price contracts, how did the companies manage the projects to insure that costs were within contract boundaries? How did they provide change control so that modifications in the specifications which would increase the costs were renegotiated with the client to get compensated for these changes? We asked the participants to describe the financial history of their companies in terms of sources of investment funds, revenues, costs and profits. The session starts with a discussion from CDSI whose representative just joined the meeting.</p>

Item Details

Date
2009-03-31 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102742923
Organization
Computer History Museum
People
Ed Bersoff (Participant)
Paul E. Ceruzzi (Participant)
Burt Grad (Moderator)
David Grier (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Editor)
Jeffrey Yost (Participant)
John Toups (Participant)
Thomas (Tim) Bergin (Participant)
Dan Bannister (Participant)
J.P. (Jack) London (Participant)
Walt Culver (Participant)
Stan Gutkowski (Participant)
Judy Huntzinger (Participant)
Wayne Shelton (Participant)
Dan Young (Participant)
Doug Jerger (Participant)
Bob Plouffe (Participant)
Cliff Kendall (Participant)
Luanne Johnson (Participant)
Category
Transcript
Format
PDF
Credit line
Software Industry Special Interest Group
Extent
35 p.
Place of publication
USA/VA/Falls Church
Language
English
Acquisition number
X5323.2009
Subject
Federal Data Corporation, PRC, BTG, Inc., BDM International, Andersen Consulting, DynCorp, Northrop Grumman, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), CACI, Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC)
Archive collection
Oral history collection
Archive hierarchy
CHM Oral History Collection