> 40% margin to the certified contractor who is doing glorified project management. This makes sense. My dad was an engineer working for the Feds. Really the j

> 40% margin to the certified contractor who is doing glorified project management. This makes sense. My dad was an engineer working for the Feds. Really the job is technical project management and oversight. In the US there is a fetish for keeping the government workforce small. Which then results in outsourcing things at great expense. Example I've heard that part of the reason there were delays and and cost overruns with the eastern span of the bay bridge was because CALTRANS didn't have enough engineers to do effective and timely oversight. Nor engineers with the proper experience.