My current position was put to bid as a contract from a school district. They tried to hire the position directly, but couldn’t fill the position w/a qualified

My current position was put to bid as a contract from a school district. They tried to hire the position directly, but couldn’t fill the position w/a qualified candidate at their salary bands. So they sent it out as a ‘service’ and approved a contract for fulfillment that was more than triple the salary band, to pay for my salary and the overhead the private company is incurring to staff the position. If they’d been willing to break the ‘band’ and compete w/the private market directly they could of spent double instead of triple, but then they’d have to figure out how to deal w/the union and non-union staff since the salaries are public record…