Anonymous

London

Cynical Pessimist

Yes but does the contract say the 'guilty' should pay ?
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Quite probably it doesn't -
Maybe just because for a Post-Contract-Allocation reduction in the agreed charge, any clause requiring suppliers (EDS, etc.) to pay for the cost of their errors being removed from the contract

Been there myself -
IT put in the
'Get it right - or else - it's financial penalties against you!'
clauses -

Contracts management take out those clauses for a reduction in the base contract price.
( so any fixes have to be paid for as 'change requests' )

A similar contract change caused enormous difficulties in an IT department where I worked.
For the 5% contract 'price' reduction the contractor was 1 year late with the initial delivery, and then made over 20% extra during the next year changing the delivered 'stuff' to match the original specification.

Even more fun - the added condition no changes to the hardware OS and development systems during the contract term -
How would you like not being able to apply MS security fixes to windows? )

I never did find out how much bonus the contracts staff got for getting the reduction in the contract price !