{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The GovCon Show","title":"S2E9 – Stop Fixing the Symptom","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1000,"description":"Most contractors are not failing because they refuse to fix problems.\nThey are failing because they keep fixing the symptom.\nIn Season 2, Episode 9 of The GovCon Show, Tim Magnusson tackles one of the most dangerous habits in government contracting: cleaning up visible issues while leaving the real problem untouched.\nA weak file may not be a documentation problem.\n It may be a decision problem.\nA bad price may not be a pricing problem.\n It may be a scope maturity problem.\nA subcontract dispute may not be a subcontract problem.\n It may be a risk-alignment problem.\nCustomer direction causing unpaid work may not be a communication problem.\n It may be a change-control problem.\nAnd under fixed-price pressure, those mistakes get expensive fast.\nThis episode explains why better paperwork, more checklists, additional reviews, and cleaner templates are not enough if the underlying decision-making system is still producing the same failures.\nFixed-price contracts punish bad diagnosis. Vague scope becomes unpaid effort. Missing assumptions become margin loss. Unpriced travel and ODCs become real cash problems. Customer dependencies become contractor exposure. Subcontract gaps become disputes.\nThe question is not just:\n “How do we fix this issue?”\nThe real question is:\n “What keeps producing this issue?”\nIf your company is dealing with fixed-price conversion, recompetes, proposal pressure, customer direction, subcontractor misalignment, pricing assumptions, or scope creep, this episode is for you.\nRun the Fixed-Price Conversion Risk Assessment at GovConAdvisoryGroup.com before the symptom gets prettier and the real problem gets more expensive.\nIn this episode:\nWhy contractors keep fixing symptoms instead of causes\nWhy better documentation does not fix bad judgment\nHow more reviews can become compliance theater\nWhy fixed-price contracts punish weak assumptions\nHow to spot patterns across recurring contract problems\nWhy pricing problems may actually be scope, assumption, or...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/WivleeXGIwd_zHnQQqM8p41pOHA-SCzqvHtS6FeawHA/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wMWY0/MGYxMjUxODQzMjk3/MjYyN2QwYWYzNWM3/YWFhNC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}