I have seen many project opportunities that were "lost" due to the customer choosing the lowest bid without taking into consideration the costs involved to maintain the application or the skill level of the developer. I used quotes on the word "lost" because we often see these types of projects make their way back to DSA in order to fix the problems the original "lowest bid" developer could not solve.
DSA is a Pennsylvania-based automation engineering services firm that provides solutions such as process control, simulation and data management for the industrial sector.