I can tell you that had my members seen this, flags would have been raised.
There's something known as a price review. I'll give an example of a chair. If you're selling a chair to the Government of Canada, are you selling me that chair at a price you would normally charge someone else in another company, or are you charging me more because I am the Government of Canada? By doing a simple market comparison, we could say these rates make sense. Does the work you're asking to be performed take that amount of time normally?