Honestly, with an LLM, I can do it by myself for $96,000 - maybe less. I had a brief look at the website.

Downvote me if you want. But I just built a small business website for a relative in about 5 minutes using Vercel's v0. All I did was upload the logo design, gave it some details about the business and it spit out a fantastic professional looking website in about 1 minute. Made some changes to it and pressed a button to publish with a custom domain and it went live. The entire process took 5 minutes.

I'm sure I can make a weather website with a map for $96k.

People rely on this for safety as well as economic activity like agriculture etc.. As bad as the site redesign is, we even more don’t want a crappy vibe-coded site when incorrect weather warnings could kill a lot of people or cause economic damage!

Fixed price? Shake on it LOL

- That "weather website" has to serve all of Australia.

- It's got to be usable on big screen desktops, tablets, smartphones.

- It has to have an uptime of what I estimate to be 99.99%. As the article says, farmers will pitchfork you if you can't tell them when rain will hit their fields.

- It has to be slinging dynamic image data to (about) every visitor.

- The data comes from somewhere. You're lucky if they have that under control already. Probably not.

I came up with these aspects, not knowing anything about what the "Bureau of Meteorology" actually needs in a website. It's just common sense speculation.

The Australian government eagerly awaits your expert advice.