Part of that big price tag is likely because of requirements for any kind of government contracted software, some of which are reasonable, some of which are not

Part of that big price tag is likely because of requirements for any kind of government contracted software, some of which are reasonable, some of which are not. Often companies charge a lot more for complying with those requirements. The Fedramp version of most SaaS offerings is significantly more expensive than the non-fedramp version. And part of that is just to cover paying the higher prices for their dependencies to be fedramp compliant.