Recall that proposal success rates across the board right now are <10%. And a typical proposal takes 20-120 hours of total effort. For many proposers, their effort is already uncompensated. The cost of writing a proposal is already very high. And the chance of success is very low.
@millionconcepts.comEstimate ~10 hours average total effort to prepare each proposal (which might be low), so ~28,000 hours, or ~14 years of full time labor. Almost all of that is uncompensated work by highly skilled people. For an 8% chance to be able to start the project, most likely with below-market compensation.