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Yeah, after reading that article, I get the very strong feeling that these "federal consultants" are in for a second round of greedy-greedy-grabfest. They're throwing insane sounding numbers out there so that they can justify egregious compensation. Someone needs to call these people out on their bluff, there is no way that this terrible site is even close to the LoC numbers they're throwing out there.

I'm so sick of seeing contractors fleece our government (and by extent, us) by pulling the wool over the eyes of those who don't know any better and making sweetheart arrangements.



Geeze, how many times are you going to make this point in this discussion? See my first reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6586603

I point out there's absolutely no way the contractors could have won with the insane management they were under, unqualified CMMS government bureaucrats doing the integration and constantly requiring changes, through the week before launch, some of which is detailed in this article.




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