That's actually not a joke. There is probably a whole layer of internal costs for every government agency involved, maintaining the paper trails that allow thes

That's actually not a joke. There is probably a whole layer of internal costs for every government agency involved, maintaining the paper trails that allow these questions to be answered in the first place. There's a near-zero probability that these laws (yes, laws) don't have some impact on the job-management process, which will carry into procedural burdens for vendor to factor into their quoted prices.