You are a COR and your contract for a critical barracks construction project is three weeks behind schedule. Two hundred soldiers are due to arrive on the scheduled completion date. If the barracks are not available, the soldiers will have no living quarters. What should the COR look for in the contract that protects the government's best interest, i. e. paying for the housing of the 200 soldiers?

when taxes are levied on transactions, irrespective of the party they are levied on, a. the government can absorb some of the surplus, but also creates a social loss since some of the wealth creating transactions are discouraged b. the government can absorb all the producer surplus from the transactions as revenue c. the government can absorb all of the surplus (producer and consumer) d. the government can absorb all the consumer surplus from the transactions as revenue