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Lower rates get approved. Then the model has to be made compliant.
Making the model compliant in a CMMC and DFARS environment requires infrastructure that isn't on the rate card.
The cost didn't go away. It moved to a place where overruns don't surface until a review finds them.
By the time the audit identifies where the savings actually went, the program is already in remediation.

A workflow tool can work exactly as configured and still make the business process worse.

That happens when the organization buys coordination before it has agreed on the process logic.

Approvals are slow. Notifications get missed. Documents move through email. People keep asking for status updates.

That sounds like workflow automation. But the real question is whether the process underneath is already stable.

If departments disagree on the steps, if exception handling dominates the work, if ownership is unclear, or if enterprise dependencies are not mapped, then routing the work faster does not fix the problem. It embeds the problem.

Workflow automation coordinates an agreed process. Business process automation redesigns the process before the coordination layer is built.

Choose the wrong scope and automation becomes rework.

Read the full article before the scope is locked: https://i3solutions.com/insights-workflow-automation/business-process-automation-vs-workflow-automation-services/

Automation does not fix disagreement. It makes disagreement move faster.

That is what happens when a workflow tool is selected before the underlying process is agreed on.

The approvals route. The reminders are sent. The dashboard updates.

But departments still disagree about steps, rules, owners, exceptions, and evidence.

That is not a workflow coordination problem. That is a process design problem.

Read the full article before selecting an automation tool. It explains how to tell whether you are coordinating an agreed workflow, redesigning the process, or doing both.

https://i3solutions.com/insights-workflow-automation/business-process-automation-vs-workflow-automation-services/

Choose the wrong starting point and automation becomes rework.