Bespoke professional services work costs bespoke professional service work rates, film at 11, but one factor not already discussed here: A lot of contracting a

Bespoke professional services work costs bespoke professional service work rates, film at 11, but one factor not already discussed here: A lot of contracting arrangements like this will ratably assign overhead to particular change orders or line items in ways which will cause the apparent cost of the line item to be higher than one might think necessary. This is, mostly, to avoid there being a "$250k for the manual; $5 billion for Miscellaneous Expenses" sort of bill. (The question of whether government contracting is optimal is a long and involved one outside the scope of this comment.)