More than $5k. Just recovering your associated costs will be a couple $k: A lawyer to help negotiate a contract. If you find someone who is familiar with OSS a

More than $5k. Just recovering your associated costs will be a couple $k: A lawyer to help negotiate a contract. If you find someone who is familiar with OSS and isn’t in a big firm, this might be $1k or so. Liability insurance. Any incorporation costs if you choose to incorporate, which (in the US, I’m not a lawyer, and this is not advice) you should seriously consider if you start making money from independent work. Throw in a bit of support and you might get paid fairly well. Keep in mind that the fact that you got asked for this means that someone wants to use your work enough that they asked the procurement department to set it up.