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by wmf 1097 days ago
Government IT is outsourced at prices that could pay top salaries (think Palantir). They just don't.
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> Government IT is outsourced at prices that could pay top salaries

Mostly, its not; a lot is not outsourced, and a lot that is is outsourced on personal services contracts at rates that even if there was no vendor overhead wouldn’t pay for a top-flight pay and benefits package.