This will be fun to watch, but the reverse auction will not work. It will get bid to $0.01, by someone looking to get a "foot in the door" with the government.

This will be fun to watch, but the reverse auction will not work. It will get bid to $0.01, by someone looking to get a "foot in the door" with the government. Watch this space, with enough marketing, you are about to see all the 1000s of companies constructed with no real skill, only certifications (Veteran-owned, HUBZone, Woman-owned, Alaskan, Minority, etc), flood the market with unrealistic bids. The critical path issue with government procurement of information technology is not cost alone... it's with the insistence of the customer to require a custom solution, and the inability to describe the requirement, and thus, technical acceptability. What this project will do, is show that even when boiled down to very micro, unscalable size, "lowest price, technically acceptable" (LPTA) is an inappropriate purchasing pattern for non-commodity information technology, or more any non-commodity, really.