[quote=no_such_reality]The administrative requirements are pre-requisites to the SOW which act as a barrier to entry and essentially act as an unnecessary and esoteric requirement. i.e. a mil-spec hammer when a $5 hammer from HD would do the job.[/quote]
You may think it’s unnecessary and esoteric. But it’s also part of the process of doing business with almost every Fortune 500 company. It is not solely a government thing. It is a big organization thing. And the federal government is as big as it gets.