Competition can improve engineering, but a modular programme also needs consequences when suppliers fail to deliver compatible equipment. Exactly how to enforce shared consequences across competing suppliers remains an open question. Denmark appears to have applied a blunt StanFlex rule: a module must work with the standard before the supplier is paid. Such a requirement could keep corporate rivalry from eroding the interface on which the ships and payloads depend. The example connects procurement terms to the practical delivery of compatible modules.
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Common modules require contracts that enforce compatibility
Denmark appears to have tied payment to StanFlex compatibility, illustrating how procurement terms could protect a shared standard.