[nraynaud]

I think there are a lot of secondary objectives in those rules. Being secondary, they are not pushing for a working website. Stuff like town and country planning (putting a building in an area that need jobs), economic (the made in USA, small business), social (hire old people, disabled, women in tech etc.), competitive process to keep the prices in check (haha), bulk buy to get some discount etc.

Obviously when you have so many targets, you don't hit a lot. Maybe the obamacare website was perfect in some secondary objectives.

But it also arises from perfectly true premise, that big spending is a force on the society and that it as secondary effects, and that maybe we can twist those effects in a political manner. The whole Silicon Valley is living on federal actions.