Standard PCG contract for fixed price work?

[Wanderer]

Demonstrates risk, and demonstrates an ability to increase your margin by delivering early and/or working more efficiently. What's not to like?

I agree with Peter Loew and bobspud. I always nail down a spec when bidding for a fixed price contract. If there is no spec then they have to pay to have it scoped out. By far the easiest way to do these jobs in on an hour/daily rate though. If you bid on a job without a detailed spec then you end up having heated discussions with the client over what's included and what's not. That's not my style, I like my business to avoid risk where possible and build goodwill by nailing down a detailed spec, delivering what I promise and dealing with scope creep in a professional manner.

If you are talking about risk being likable from the point of view of a potentially IR35 avoiding permie-tractor then you have a point and every little helps but this particular job will be subcontracted out so it's pretty much got an IR35 silver bullet there. I wouldn't go accepting a risk (ie, poorly scoped project) that my business could mitigate against with some good management just to win a bit of IR35 karma...

why aren't you asking this question on the PCG boards?