Quoting the blog post on the the $1 bid: "It was a plot twist that no one here at 18F expected. This unexpected development will no doubt force us to rethink so

Quoting the blog post on the the $1 bid: "It was a plot twist that no one here at 18F expected. This unexpected development will no doubt force us to rethink some of our assumptions about the reverse-auction model." * I work at 18F