$18M Being Spent to Redesign Recovery.gov Web Site If you spend 18 millions bucks on a website, it should be able to provide hands free jimmy yanking.
I suspect a large part of the cost will come from documenting individual projects. The administration wants people to be able to see before and after photos and videos of each project, of which there are a bunch.
Also, it can't be just your average website... since the Fed websites are considered Federal records, additional stuff has to happen, there are stringent requirements for accessibility, and enormous efforts aimed at security.
Isn't this true for just about every website with private information, like say websites for credit cards, or company intranets, or for online banking? I can't imagine it costs a normal company $18 million to design a website.
Websites themselves are easy. But, if they want to show where all the federal dollars are going, that's going to be one hell of a lot of data to collect and organize and query against. Knowing the federal government they are probably paying top dollar, but saying "$18M for a website?!" is probably a ridiculous strawman.
Too bad Two Roads Media couldn't get in on some of that action. They would probably do it better for half that price.
He's saying they want to take pictures of the projects that the stimulus money is being spent on and put those on the website.
Ah ok. But if that's the case, the article is wrong. And secondly, that's still way too much. Photographers are cheap.
more info.... Updated: Hoyer-linked firm wins $18M Recovery.gov contract Contracts to SMARTRONIX, INC. (FY 2000-2008) Government needs to change its tech process
Or just handle the bandwith for millions of users at the same time. I bet anytime a company switches from SAP to Oracle they probably pay around this much.
Considering it costs like a million dollars a day for bandwidth to run Youtube back in 2008, I am more comfortable with this $18 million over 5 years.
