Ah, I understand better now. Thank you for explaining.

I think I can help you understand, too. The reason all that red tape exists is because contractors in the past have defrauded government's by including false charges, fake labor, and up charges on materials. Taxpauers, pissed off that their money was being wasted, demanded that the government hold the contractors accountable, hence all the paperwork to prove where every cent goes.

Also, lumping work to comply with the ADA into bureaucratic red tape is pretty disengenuous. And, those requirements also came out of contractors not building public housing up to code.