Still, it's alarmingly wrong. I mean the usual modus operandi for a government would be to assume the project themselves (to have citizen trust) and externalise

Still, it's alarmingly wrong. I mean the usual modus operandi for a government would be to assume the project themselves (to have citizen trust) and externalise it quietly to a 3rd party, bureaucratically so that people can't really tell who is doing what. But this really is too much "in your face", they don't even bother pretending.