Additionally, for that price you could have easily have 3 independent teams develop it and take the best one and still be cheaper and better.
I hope someone will challenge this in court. I don‘t think they can get away without a call for bids which should have been done (across Europe, as the law requires).
And frankly nobody thinks "wow, Germany has a working COVID app" since almost everyone else has it too. Even Italy, amongst a ton of screw ups, has managed to produce a perfectly fine open source contact tracing app.
US, UK, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico, Chile, Belgium, Sweden are significantly affected countries without one.
I don't expect Germany to get a wow, only abscense of negative press.
Small exchange from the British Parliament: https://youtu.be/atAy8NGOoiw
An illegal subsidy. Public contracts require a bidding process, usually across Europe.
It‘s unfair that smaller companies don‘t get a chance.
I reject the idea that Germany should prop up its biggest companies, excluding what really is the backbone of the German economy (which works very differently from the US one) and also excluding our partners across all of Europe.
