OK, clearly there is more money in web development and maintenance than I thought. The Recovery.Gov website, which is not as old as the Obama Administration itself is already due for a multi-million dollar makeover?
“Recovery.gov 2.0 will use innovative and interactive technologies to help taxpayers see where their dollars are being spent,” James A. Williams, commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, says in a press release announcing the contract awarded to Maryland-based Smartronix Inc. “Armed with easy access to this information, taxpayers can make government more accountable for its decisions.”
The contract calls for spending $9.5 million through January, and as much as $18 million through 2014, according to the GSA press release.
I’m sorry, but that’s akin to the $600 toilet seats and $400 hammers (or whatever the ridiculous costs were). $9.5 million for a website design (and likely hosting and maintenance) for 6 months? If the purpose is to “make government more accountable for its decisions,” who is making government accountable for that? The government is wasting $18 Million to track government waste. I guess transparency comes at a hefty price. Is it transparency, or an $18 Million taxpayer funding re-election ad?
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