The State of Alaska is blowing money big time. I would hope that with their existing staff of programmers/business analysts that they would be capable of programming such a system without such a huge bill attached. 

This is yet another fine example of our state administration going wrong. If their existing staff can't manage to pull a similar system together, I am sure that there are more than enough competent programmers in state who would be more than capable of obtaining the desired results using publicly available APIs for common networks and applications in the "cloud" (outsourced servers).

LET THE PFD RAID COMMENCE!