It's not suspicious at all.
There are companies that are good at bidding for federal contracts, and there are companies that are good at running massive interactive websites. There hasn't been much of a need before for them to be the same. So a company that wasn't up to the task managed to run the gauntlet of Federal procurement, because the companies best suited to make the site didn't have any expertise (or, probably, interest) in bidding.
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