Absalon, StanFlex, and Danish procurement discipline

The Absalon class offers a proposed model for ships maintained forward to provide a continuing naval presence. StanFlex also earns praise for enforcing compatibility between equipment and the rest of the ship. Suppliers had to make their systems work with the required interfaces or lose payment. The comparison with American procurement faults the difficulty of getting competing companies to cooperate. Fixed-price contracting receives support as another way to keep the financial consequences of poor delivery from passing automatically to the customer.