No, that's right wing spin. We spent $94M on this thing. Still absurd, but don't be misled by the spin campaign.
Also your math is off. A $10M price tag wouldn't be totally ridiculous. Consider the cost of a team of 50, including QA, design, product guys, engineers, management, lawyers, analysts, data entry, etc for a year. Add 30% to cover risk.
So, it's somewhere in the 10x too expensive region.
$94M for a website is absurd, and reeks of incompetence and bureaucracy.
$650M for a website would be downright fraudulent. It's not a coincidence that it's the latter number that's being talked about.
Your attempt to silence debate by shaming those you disagree with has been noted.
In any event, I still think that's 100x the actual value of the web site work. The site strikes me as the kind of thing a decent consulting company could execute for just shy of $1M.
My point earlier, though, still stands. It's surprising to me that the "best" firm at navigating our regulatory maze is Canadian. A credit to them, I suppose.