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But if Conduent is a contractor working for the government, isn't the government then already funding the hosting?
by ulrikrasmussen 9y ago
But if Conduent is a contractor working for the government, isn't the government then already funding the hosting?
- amelius 9y agoNot necessarily. If someone pays you to do something, it doesn't mean they own what you buy with that money. E.g., your boss doesn't own your home computer. Conduent entered the business under a certain contract and with certain expectations, and hosting a database for others might not have been part of that.
- BinaryIdiot 9y ago> If someone pays you to do something, it doesn't mean they own what you buy with that money. E.g., your boss doesn't own your home computer. In all of my years doing government contracting there has always been money explicitly earmarked for hosting in project estimates and the government had to pay for it. When hosting became more than expected we sent the government the bill anyway and explained it and it would still end up getting paid (though something else may get scaled back). I mean it's certainly possible it wasn't contracted out this way I would just be surprised.