Frustrating dynamic. Something similar played out for me in a different industry, where a company doled out a bunch of different parts of a large project to dif

Frustrating dynamic. Something similar played out for me in a different industry, where a company doled out a bunch of different parts of a large project to different subcontractors. The subcontractor I was working at was apparently the only one that hit the dates and deliverables. So we got put on pause (aka defunded) while the other contractors were paid to catch up. I never was sure why some of the unfinished work wasn't shifted to us, but the end result was the same as yours -- getting penalized for doing the demonstrably superior work.