We've been digging through $9.5 million Recovery.gov rewrite contract the Recovery Board has signed with Smartronix, Inc., and it is taking us surprisingly little time...because most of the information has been redacted. Although the Initial Award Contract Document (PDF) has some annoying redactions (like how much Smartronix charges for Programmers or Project Managers), the really disconcerting redaction comes in on supporting documentation.

In the accompanying document "508 Second Modification Technical Proposal," (PDF) the seven pages that describe the work of Smartronxic subcontractor (and uber-federal contractor) KPMG are totally blacked out.

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But what really irks me about the Sharpie-happy folks at the General Services Administration -- the agency that awarded the contract and subsequently redacted the documents -- is this nonsense:

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Seriously? The number of peak users that Smartronix plans to accommodate is proprietary information? What else does GSA consider "proprietary?"