From time to time I am trying to crawl government procurement portals for projects, and dropping the idea after a couple of hours again and again: only proposal

From time to time I am trying to crawl government procurement portals for projects, and dropping the idea after a couple of hours again and again: only proposal, initial negotiation and documentation will probably require several people full time, this is even before any project movements.. Mind that, this it's the system where you're bidding for months for a project, and even if you have won and was good at delivery, you will be doing all the rounds for the next one again. So governments, sort of meaning to drive the price down via tenders, in reality are paying for all the losing bids too, and paying a lot.