Re:TSA actually spent only $47,000 on the random assignment app
by ahallock on Monday April 04, 2016 @09:45PM
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'Only'? There will be lots of rationalizing, of course, as to the final cost but this is real money that could have helped the tax payers it was stolen from. Instead, it's been redistributed to overpaid contractors.
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Re:TSA actually spent only $47,000 on the random assignment app
by nmrm2 on Monday April 04, 2016 @10:01PM
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The app was used at 100 airports. If you include the cost of the iPads then it's like $7000 for the actual app. Still high for a couple hours of work, but you figure most of that is overhead inherent in contract-style work. I never charge less than 1k for a project because it's not even worth the time it takes to place a bid and manage the paperwork, and I don't have to put up with government BS.
The ironic thing is that the person who made the FOIA request is complaining about lack of transparency when transparency is a perfect example of the sorts of perverse incentives that cause government projects have insane amounts of overhead. One of those spend a dollar to prevent a penny of fraud things. I don't really have any solutions, but there's no free cake.
'course the elephant in the room is that TSA itself is a waste of money even without expensive software contracts.