cost overrun

Examples of overrun

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Disputes among subcontractors would follow if the causes of delays are not clearly established and the cost overruns are not reimbursed properly.
When necessary, the government must then propose changes in the legal framework to parliament to prevent overruns, or alternatively compensate by cutting expenditures elsewhere.
Failing to control the technology transfer can delay the business process and result in budget overruns.
Urban growth overran the capacity of traditional urban centres and expanded throughout the landscape at the expense of open spaces.
In the latter case, the budget act requires that the government suggest countermeasures in case overruns are foreseen.
What is called for is a reporting system that monitors all expenditures and alerts the government to potential overruns.
The rebels on the other hand had few problems in replenishing and expanding their military stock by abducting young men in the territories they overran.
Naturally shortfalls and overruns occur when one year is compared with the next.
Without a schedule reflecting proper resource management, delay of project completion and cost overruns can occur.
Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula.
However, some subcontractors might experience cost overruns when their available resources differ from their resource requirements.
The selection of manufacturing processes has traditionally been a costly bottleneck in the production phases in terms of both dollar and schedule overruns.
Steady increases in the number of requirements and changes to requirements may indicate that the project is at risk for delays and cost overruns.
If the owner does not have the capacity to operate as a smart buyer, the owner risks project schedule and cost overruns and facilities that do not meet performance objectives.
An acquisition that lacks either or both of these elements is at risk of incurring unnecessary cost overruns, not meeting its planned delivery schedule, and not satisfying agency needs.
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