S2E13 – Randomly Right is Still Wrong

Being right once does not prove control.In this episode of The GovCon Show, we break down one of the most dangerous illusions in government contracting: the belief that a correct outcome means the system worked.Sometimes the supplier performs. Sometimes the price holds. Sometimes the customer is happy. Sometimes the file survives review. But that does not always mean the process was sound. It may only mean the company got lucky, the right person touched the work, or nobody asked the second question.That is the problem with being randomly right.Randomly right still means the result may depend on chance, personality, tribal knowledge, memory, individual heroics, or the one person who knows how the system really works.And that is not control.This episode explains why GovCon companies need repeatable, supportable, defensible decisions — not occasional correct outcomes. It also examines the risk of dependency on “Brenda,” “Bob,” old spreadsheets, informal know-how, and the one person who always seems to know what to do.Because if the system only works when the right person is involved, it is not really a system.It is a dependency.Visit GovConAdvisoryGroup.com to explore the Policy Control Diagnostic, Fixed-Price Conversion Risk Assessment, and Rent a Contracting Officer approach.