I do a lot of work as a contractor to the public sector and I can tell you that very little of the $86M will be spent on software development. The vast majority

I do a lot of work as a contractor to the public sector and I can tell you that very little of the $86M will be spent on software development. The vast majority will go on hiring a massively bloated team of non-technical people to go through the motions of whatever delivery methodology they use, producing a huge amount of documentation and getting various people to sign it all off. Assuming it’s outsourced the vendor will have its own team producing similar quantities of paperwork. The ratio of developers to paper-pushers will be lower than 1:20.