We only work with fixed-price contracts. Staff-hours are used to calculate the price. The Budget is the amount of required staff-hours multiplied by the price of one staff-hour.

The price per staff-hour includes direct expenses, indirect expenses, and our profit. Depending on the size of the project and cost of technical specialists' efforts price per hour may vary in interval between $25 and $60.

Direct expenses include:

• Expenses for technicians/suppliers;
• Salary and bonuses of project manager;
• Our expenses for project management software development;
• Equipment rental;
• Local and state taxes.

Indirect expenses include:

• Corporate QA services;
• Process improvement;
• Free defect removal services;
• Mistakes in estimates that may result in project cost overrun;
• Management reserve.

You approve a Budget as the fixed amount of staff-hours and monetary value required to complete the project. The Budget is never changed if scope of the work is not changed.