Section 16.402-1 - Cost incentives(a) Most incentive contracts include only cost incentives, which take the form of a profit or fee adjustment formula and are intended to motivate the contractor to effectively manage costs. No incentive contract may provide for other incentives without also providing a cost incentive (or constraint).(b) Except for award-fee contracts (see 16.404 and 16.401 (e)), incentive contracts include a target cost, a target profit or fee, and a profit or fee adjustment formula that (within the constraints of a price ceiling or minimum and maximum fee) provides that- (1) Actual cost that meets the target will result in the target profit or fee;(2) Actual cost that exceeds the target will result in downward adjustment of target profit or fee; and(3) Actual cost that is below the target will result in upward adjustment of target profit or fee.48 FR 42219, Sept. 19, 1983, as amended at 62 FR 12696, Mar. 17, 1997; 62 FR 51379, Oct. 1, 1997; 74 FR 52859 , Oct. 14, 2009