Recovery.gov, the Site Worth $10 Million of Irony

July 24th, 2009

I like transparency and all, but finding out that the government is paying close to $10 million dollars for a website is insane:

One of the most renowned Web development firms in the country is 37Signals in Chicago. Their Web applications consistently receive accolades for usability and design. With only 14 employees, they manage to put out amazing state-of-the-art sites that outclass anything the federal government has ever produced.

To them, a contract of this size would mean an annual salary of $1.3 million for each employee. Believe me, that’s not the market rate.

(Via Joshua Blankenship)

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  • http://www.recovery.org Ruth Burr

    Recovery.org is actually a privately-run stimulus tracking website. It’s tracking stimulus spending down to the individual project level, at no cost to the taxpayer. The government site, for which the recent development contract was awarded, is http://www.recovery.gov.

  • http://ionizedmedia.com Ryan

    @Ruth

    Thanks for the correction—it’s been corrected now. Much appreciated.

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