Professional services or vendor software. As a professional services developer, a client paid our company several million to develop custom tooling to monitor

Professional services or vendor software. As a professional services developer, a client paid our company several million to develop custom tooling to monitor their data center. Recently a load balancer for several million, via a third party vendor to load balance HTTP requests. At a prior contract I shared a room with a consulting firm. Slated for two months. They were paid several hundred thousand to configure Jira, and improve our agile process. Anything vendor related. Some teams do not have the structure in place for a software development team. Or the culture is not right. At that point, is it better to try and create that culture/team. Or do you pay a bit more and hire a vendor to create the software for you.