A few of old IT guys with no fucks to give and a few "up and out" junior devs working over time can whip up a one off abomination build out of LAMP stacks and CGI scrips with a little perl thrown in and an unusable set of websites to handle all the data entry and exit and it WILL ACTUALLY WORK. It will be clunky and the onboarding time will be comical but it will work.
That is a low bar. Your "lowest bidders" should at least be able to equal that. It just has to accomplish the business processes and do so within the software. It doesn't need to be fast, intuitive or look good doing it, it just needs to do it.
That is a low bar. Your "lowest bidders" should at least be able to equal that. It just has to accomplish the business processes and do so within the software. It doesn't need to be fast, intuitive or look good doing it, it just needs to do it.