types used by the government from a pricing standpoint. The two that I will explore in this paper are Sealed Bidding and Negotiation. Sealed bidding is used when the contracting officer decides that adequate price competition exists and that the specification or statement of work is well defined to enable offerors to bid on a fixed-price basis. On the other hand negotiation is used when sealed bidding is inappropriate‚ such as instances when the specification or statement of work may not be well-defined
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relative strength can be measured by whether people walk away thinking they would be pleased to negotiate again with him/her. If people leave a negotiation with you thinking they never want to see you again‚ then you are a poor negotiator. A negotiator needs to understand that different issues should be treated as having different priorities in different negotiations. Sometimes the relationship is most important; other times creativity is the measure of how well one negotiates; and it is always true that
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Reflection Paper - Texoil For the Texoil negotiation‚ I was in the role of the Service Station Owner. As such‚ my main objective was to sell the station and get the best possible agreement. My BATNA was $400‚000‚ which represented an offer from British Petroleum and my resistance point was $413‚000 after tax‚ which represented the cost of my trip. My target was $488‚000‚ which included an additional $75‚000 to help tie me over until I found a job upon my return. This resistance point represents
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Reflection Report 1: In all my negotiations so far‚ I always focused on how I should be achieving my target and in that process I completely missed what the other party is trying to do or what their actual goal might be. It is so true in the Job search negotiation during which I just focused on scoring more than 35 points and prepared my arguments accordingly. When we started the negotiation‚ my partner took the lead and decided which issue needs to be negotiated first. He started with location
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Sally Soparno The fundamental assumption is that learning and practicing negotiation skills can be learned. Others‚ however‚ assume that diplomacy and negotiation are things that can never be learned or taught. They believe that you are either born a negotiator or you are not. Unfortunately‚ this is a very shortsighted assumption. The approach to this will be to use all the information that was provided in the analysis to determine the best position of strategy to save the Opera on opening day
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factual-inductive style has persuasive appeals made to logic (e.g. typical in North American negotiations)‚ the axiomaticdeductive style appeals to ideals (e.g. typical in the former USSR) and the affective-intuitive style focuses on emotional appeals (e.g. typical in Arab countries). Other studies have shown that persuasive tactics are consistent across countries‚ such as the use of aggressive tactics present in US negotiation behavior There are essentially two strategies to bargaining: representational and
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Reflection Journal: TEXOIL CASE Summer 2015 For the Texoil negotiation‚ I was assigned the role of the Service Station Owner. As such‚ my main objective was to sell the station and get the best possible agreement. My BATNA was $518‚000‚ which accounted the present and the next two years expenses ($478‚000) plus half of the year salary upon return from the trip ($35‚000). My asking price was 650‚000 explaining to Texoil that the market price was around $800‚000. The benchmark was the cost of constructing
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Gaming in Shanghai By: Dr. Bob March Published in Dr Bob March’s book "Chinese Negotiator" Overview HyperHawk‚ one of the world’s major providers of global supply management software and services‚ helps companies reduce costs through efficient product and services sourcing. It has handled more than $50 billion worth of products and services in the oil and gas‚ other natural resources‚ retail‚ transport‚ finance‚ and industrial sectors for customers including General Motors‚ Nestlé‚ Shell‚ Japan
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Jewels Equipment Manufactures 1. a. In negotiation with condor‚ what is Jewels BATNA? A. Jewels BATNA in this case is to buy Z1 CPU from Beta‚ because Z1 are more effective than Z2 and they will save $5 per unit so the total cost of this Z1 units at the end instead of being $38 will be $33. This is $2 dollars cheaper than buying Z2 at $35 per unit. b. In negotiation with condor‚ what is Jewel’s reservation price‚ i.e.‚ the most it will pay for Condor’s Z2 CPU? B. Their reservation price should
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taught us that negotiation is the “consensual bargaining process in which the parties attempt to reach agreement on a disputed or potentially disputed matter” (CONR 605). The essential attributes of a successful negotiation include the use of bargaining tactics by the parties and a relatively equal amount of power for each of the parties. These aspects do not fit the relationship between couples suffering from domestic violence since the abuser already holds the power. Negotiation will not change
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