[JTon]

I've heard this before. How can they "get away" not building it, legally speaking? Makes no sense to me in this context

[aroch]

Because of how the contract was worded, they didn't have to actually provide the service just "attempt" to or something like that

[kdragon]

Because the bill that awarded them the funding was written in a way where there were no repercussions for not doing so.