That's par for the course when going for the cheapest bid, quality be damned, be it a local company or not. It's just that no local company in a richer country

That's par for the course when going for the cheapest bid, quality be damned, be it a local company or not. It's just that no local company in a richer country can compete on price, so the cheapest ones went away when globalization got going. Most companies know one can't hire the cheapest job applicant, they try (more or less successfully) to vet them, yet somehow outsourcing companies are exempt. One wonders how much these managers actually want the project to succeed.