Solving the government technology bondogle problem

My model of how government technology programs works is as follows:
Step one, the legislature allocates money for some technology proposal.
Step two, government bureaurcats phone bigwigs at the technology companies so they can hobnob in oak paneled offices.

Here I suggest Step 1.5, have the technology officer start a public blog about the project. My hords of readers can see the advantage right away; the open source community can get access to the project and propose minimal decompositions of it, partial completion goals and milestones. Likely the techology officer will immediately get access to open source components that directly solve some part of the technology chain at no cost. The idea is to let the open cource community cut off the hobnobbing at its source, before the thing balloons into a fiasco.

Consider that recent case of the Fresno Unified Schools getting caught in a $2 mllion bondolge with Microsoft regarding student record management. Rather than go back to county taxpayers for another chunk of graft, Kurt Madden the CTO, should start a blog on the project, its problems and stumbling blocks. Not only will he get partial fixes right away, but likely lawyers will chime in with simple methods to sue Microsoft and recover some of the stolen money.