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Executive Order 14402 made fixed-price contracts the default across federal procurement. Here is what that mandate demands from your defense estimating process, and why the gap is now expensive.

From the Warfighting Acquisition System to Executive Order 14402 to the Feinberg memo, here is the complete arc of defense acquisition reform and what it demands from your pricing and estimating process.

The billable hour is transforming under pressure from AI competition and client demand for outcomes. Here is the data behind the shift to outcome-based consulting pricing and what Professional Services firms need to build before it becomes unavoidable.

Join SAP and Twenty5 to see how Professional Services organizations are using structured pricing and AI to scale deal volume, protect margin, and win more business — with real results from Gainwell Technologies and ZS.

AI is accelerating defense pricing. But without domain expertise, it accelerates the errors too. Here's what separates useful AI from dangerous AI in defense pricing and estimating.

The TINA and CAS compliance thresholds have moved. FAR 15.404 didn't. Here's what the FY2026 NDAA actually means for your pricing exposure, and where the real advantage sits.

ZS, a global management consulting firm, partnered with Twenty5 to replace fragmented spreadsheet-based pricing with a fully integrated intelligent pricing solution. With data previously scattered across Excel files, SAP, and staffing systems, ZS needed one source of truth. Twenty5's iPE platform connects their CRM, resourcing, and SAP project setup into a single workflow, giving ZS the foundation to compare actuals versus plan, improve future estimates, and scale pricing int

In A&D, pricing isn't really estimating a cost. It's reconciling engineering uncertainty, contract-type risk-sharing, government audit exposure, and a shifting regulatory floor, all at once, often for something that has never been built before. The estimator isn't just forecasting a number. They're navigating a set of structural constraints that don't exist anywhere else in industry. Here are the six reasons why A&D pricing and estimating is complex.

Managing construction risk means more than choosing fixed-fee or reimbursable. See why better estimating, not a different contract, is the real fix.

This partnership pairs RevTech's SAP and A&D consulting expertise with Twenty5's iPE platform to give government contractors one path from bid to delivery, and extends into joint AI innovation.