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Well, $161m is more than 23% of $327m to start with. The other thing is that although the government is using private contractors, that does not mean the latter are solely to blame. If the government ends up paying millions of dollars for a wordpress site sporting a $40 theme, the contractors charging for it may be immoral, but the government who awarded them the job is at best massively incompetent.