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The OSHA document is not rendering for me so I can't tell if there's a cost breakdown.
I'm curious if this really surprises anyone here that the entire process for the government purchasing three mobile applications (Android, iOS, and BB) was ~200k. This seems pretty ordinary/normal to me.
Actually, me and a team of two other developers recently applied for a government contract for the NIST that would have had us fixing a bug in OpenSceneGraph that was causing it to perform worse when more graphics cards were added. Due to what they were asking for and the amount of time we thought it would take to accomplish it and provide the documentation they were asking for, we bid in at $60,000. We did not get t…
People who've never worked on government contracts cannot conceive of the reporting and documentation projects.
I've been on several (govt) projects where we spent as much time writing as doing.
It didn't even stay in the American economy which should be a minimum requirement these days if a US solution is available.
This is especially true in the last 30 or 60 days - to the point where you invoice and are paid before the job is done just because it "has" to be in the billing period.
How does this further the proper mission of the government, which is to protect individual rights? I can't fathom a way that this could have anything to do with the government doing the one essential job it actually has to do! It's not just that it's a badly made app. I think the entire fact that the government making apps like this is absurd. Given what the government actually is (the only agency with the legitimate…
I often feel that I would happily fix them for free as a public service in a fairly short time period, but no doubt it takes months and lots of $ before they are addressed.