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Comment by coopreme

That’s cool. These are my expectations. Company 1 wins contract and builds something, key team members are experienced with making and navigating the “process”. Company 2 copy/pastes. They have not performed any work yet but they entered a bid X years later and bring up the years of “mediocre” dev Company 1 has done. There is only existing company 1 work and only hope of company 2. Contracting Officer chooses company 2 because promises sound good!

Reality, company 2 wins on cost and doesn’t understand the context of what was built or the environment it was built in. They don’t understand the costs as they didn’t pay them. Company 2 quickly proposes “full rewrite!” Lower cost labor they brought in can’t perform and quality degrades till we have (insert Gov software program here).

Or it doesn’t happen.

parent coopreme 1 year ago

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