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I like how the replacement system costed $425,000,000

The tech company told them on site deploys would be $424,550,000 more expensive

Yeah I find it hilarious as a contract developer how just because it's government software that means you can charge like 200 times more for essentially the same software any other client could get for like 1 million at most.

I've been doing contract development for a little over 10 years now and even the most complex projects were never even remotely that expensive. And Im sure I've probably written at least 85% of the same functionality of whatever that software does. Hell, I'm sure there is probably open source software that does similar

So glad I pay taxes

Prices of that nature usually include 10-20 year service contracts and onsite maintainers, to include hardware. Not that the prices are not still inflated, but the reality of running a contractually 99.99% uptime, multi decade, and completely backwards compatible platform is not trivial, or anything south of multi millions of dollars at the federal scale especially.

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