As performance-based contracting grows, it is clear that not all performance-based contracts are firm, fixed price. Conversely, all firm, fixed price contracts are not really performance based. A performance-based contract can be any type of contract, even time and materials.
The abbreviation cwt stands for hundredweight. Unfortunately there are two different definitions of a hundredweight. In the United Kingdom, where it has been replaced by the metric system, a hundredweight is 112 pounds, or 8 stone. In the United States, it is 100 pounds. Carol Buchholz Slack.
The abbreviation cf. stands for the Latin word confer which means âcompare.â It is primarily used in endnotes or footnotes to point the reader to works that offer an argument which contradicts or is otherwise different from the authorâs argument.he abbreviation i.e. stands for id est, which translates literally as âthat is.â Sometimes it might be more useful, however, to translate it as âwhat that means isâ or âthat is to say.â This abbreviation is used to clarify the preceding idea by restating it more simply or in different terms.