What is a target cost?

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Definition There is no set definition of a target cost and it is commonly not defined in the contracts that use them. A working definition that the author has developed is: ‘A target cost is a genuine pre-estimate of the most likely outturn cost for the project as defined in the contract documentation.’ How...

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