Strike It Rich! Create Websites!
Marty August 4th, 2009
An $18 Million contract was awarded to create the Recov.gov web site. Too bad it wasn’t open for bid, I could have done it for $1 Million.
Seriously, even a web site with a large amount of traffic could be done for much less. I’m sure it would require a fairly featurefull site, with many roles, and approvals, and a moderately complex security arrangement. It wouldn’t require a particularly large server though.
So maybe creating a site on SquareSpace.com could do it. A couple of months work by a few experienced folks could knock it out.
Maybe you would have to build it "from scratch". I would start with a toolkit, Ruby on Rails, or Drupal, or Django. One programmer, one professional designer, and say 10 managers (the government quota :-)) and that’s still only $1 million. Where is all of that money going?