The Congressional Budget Office calculates (pdf) that it would take $15 million dollars to create and maintain the database of online searchable database of government grants and contracts for five years.
But Ellen Miller of The Sunlight Foundation says today they’ve commissioned the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit OMB Watch to do the exact same thing. The cost? $234,713 for three years.
So is Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) vindicated for having alleged cost concerns? And, more importantly, does OMB Watch have an Alaskan bridge-building division?