Sortzi has seen a trend toward more fixed-price contracts, or those under which tasks are performed for a predetermined price.
But huge investments in hydropower in Bhutan (in return for the guaranteed supply of fixed-price electricity into India's grid) helped both countries.
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Fixed-price rules prevent Amazon and other digital distributors from undercutting bookstores.
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In fact, it signed up to a fixed-price contract to deliver the same trucks incumbent BAE Systems was building for 30 percent less per vehicle.
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It recommended that the government award decades-long, more or less fixed-price contracts to firms to make sure that nuclear plants and wind farms get built.
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Also, Costco, Sam's and BJ's Wholesale offer fixed-price car buying programs.
To accomplish this, the agency has fundamentally altered internal procedures by focusing more on fixed-price contracts and reducing its day-to-day oversight of commercial space companies, like SpaceX.
That, in turn, helped him to bid for fixed-price government contracts, which most defense contractors are loath to do, fearing that cost overruns will eat up their profits.
Con Edison contracted with Entergy for fixed-price capacity and energy.
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Below are details on fixed-price, auctions and parts and accessories.
By the time Donahoe's succession was announced in January of this year, he was returning to those "convenience-oriented buyers" and talking up Ebay as a channel for fixed-price sales.
But many customers have said they were unaware of such clauses, and that the sudden imposition of price rises in the middle of a supposedly fixed-price deal was unfair.
Following the expiration of the original contract in 2004, the Company and Entergy have negotiated additional fixed-price contracts totaling 1, 000 MW of capacity and energy for the last several years.
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Finally, the JLTV contract is a fixed-price contract under which the company has to provide 22 light combat vehicles within 12 to 14 months to the U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps.
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For all its success, for instance, Oracle Japan sells its databases through other Japanese software houses, which continue to charge for their services (now packaged with an Oracle database) on a fixed-price basis.
To meet those needs, the company tapped contributions from 600 employees for two years and in the spring of 2006 launched Ebay Express, a separate site that sold fixed-price items and charged sellers only if an item sold.
The losers promptly launched a legal protest that was partially successful, but on the crucial issue of price realism government lawyers ruled that the Army was under no obligation to investigate how realistic Oshkosh pricing was since with a fixed-price contract the company would be obligated to absorb any overruns.
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With only one mill buying from each region, millers say farmers may be persuaded to sell below the state-fixed price.
Once completed, the project will sell 100 percent of the power and renewable energy credits generated to Southern California Edison under 20-year fixed price power purchase agreements.
Already, six of Japan's nine large city banks have raised the price of fixed-rate mortgages.
The increased price of fixed-rate home loans since then has been driven by the increasing cost of borrowing the funds on the financial markets.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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These power-supply contracts commonly include fixed or indexed price structures.
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Farm subsidies remained largely unchanged until passage of the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act, when Congress replaced target price-deficiency payments with declining fixed subsidies.
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When the dollar was fixed to gold between the mid- 1940s and 1971, the price of oil barely fluctuated.
In early September, Barrick unveiled a plan to close out fixed hedges and begin to buy back a portion of its floating-price hedges.
Phone and internet customers may soon be allowed to escape their fixed contracts, without penalty, if the price is put up mid-contract.
The calculation is, of course, that if the eurozone crisis is fixed then voters will forgive and forget - but what will have been the price?
The biggest polluters will be paying the fixed price per tonne of CO2 until 2015, when a market-based trading scheme is expected to be introduced.
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