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<blockquote data-quote="Shadowrider" data-source="post: 2569275" data-attributes="member: 3099"><p>I've worked and bid on many DOD contracts.</p><p></p><p>Here you go:</p><p>Note that there are certain caveats that can be applied to a given contract for uncertainty or fluctuations in labor costs and a few things like that. But they have to justify them and show their books to prove them too and that also work both ways when those clauses are invoked.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That last link you posted appears to be the original contract price. As it states they were originally made in Italy, with a contract stipulation that production was to transition to the U.S. Those are 1985 dollars! No way in hell they are getting them that cheap now. Way too many parts in them for that cost, it would bankrupt Beretta. Now they might could get M&Ps for that in that kind of qty. Maybe... When you are talking $50+ million dollars a manufacturer can buy a few brand new CNC machines and dedicate them solely to the contract and still make out. Been there, done it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shadowrider, post: 2569275, member: 3099"] I've worked and bid on many DOD contracts. Here you go: Note that there are certain caveats that can be applied to a given contract for uncertainty or fluctuations in labor costs and a few things like that. But they have to justify them and show their books to prove them too and that also work both ways when those clauses are invoked. That last link you posted appears to be the original contract price. As it states they were originally made in Italy, with a contract stipulation that production was to transition to the U.S. Those are 1985 dollars! No way in hell they are getting them that cheap now. Way too many parts in them for that cost, it would bankrupt Beretta. Now they might could get M&Ps for that in that kind of qty. Maybe... When you are talking $50+ million dollars a manufacturer can buy a few brand new CNC machines and dedicate them solely to the contract and still make out. Been there, done it. [/QUOTE]
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