To add to what John and Ed told you, make darn sure you follow the specifications you agreed to in the contract. Government agencies are notorious for not paying for stuff not explicitly detailed in the contract. In fact, if they are audited, we get hammered for paying for stuff not included in contracts. Depending on the severity, severe penalties can be levied against the Project Officer. Your bureaucracy at work!

>Has this ever happened to you? I'm in the process of clarifying specs, by email, with a government client. I sent a list of questions, requesting they address them. I received my answers, only to find that they CC'ed a dozen or so end-users of the application I am to be upgrading, and included my list of questions.
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>Now, I'm beginning to receive messages from the end-users, providing me with their personalized wish-list, all because my client was gracious enough to provide their end-users with my email address!
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>So, I sent a somewhat not-too-delicate request to my client, asking them to support my desire in keeping the lines of communication to a more official level.
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>Has anyone else ever been in this situation? I know the client was being helpful to their users, by keeping them in the loop, but I thought this was weird.
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>Michael Reynolds