I made the offer with the assumption that there were three or four reasons it wouldn't be taken ... you've described one of them. The others are: b) The sele

I made the offer with the assumption that there were three or four reasons it wouldn't be taken ... you've described one of them. The others are: b) The selected contractor won the work as payback for some political benefit, and the person who made sure they won can't allow them to be perceived as incompetent. c) They don't believe it's really broken so much as it just needs to be "tuned" (almost "the myth of sunk costs"). d) No one in the government cares ... so they're not reading our thoughts and comments on the system.