In a previous thread a few days ago, I saw a quote which suggested that the actual coding work only began in Spring, 2013... six or seven months ago. I can believe that it took them 2.5 years to go from Request for Quotes to the beginning of actual work; government contracting moves like molasses in winter.
Not that it really matters, though. Bad code is bad code, whether it was tweaked for three years or slapped together in a hurry last April.
But they still need to lay the foundation out again. They’re not going to hire the same company to fix it, right? They’re not that stupid.
Much of that was political. They did not want to flesh out the details of anything prior to the election out of fear that the awful details would leak to the public.
“I can believe that it took them 2.5 years to go from Request for Quotes to the beginning of actual work; government contracting moves like molasses in winter.”
That doesn’t appear to be what happened. What appears to have happened is that to avoid political resistance/accountability they didn’t prepare the specs until after the election...and were still adjusting the regulations and specs up until early September.