This type of stuff is endemic to all bureaucracies. Managers are too scared to make decisions so they look outside in order to justify any decision. Its madde

This type of stuff is endemic to all bureaucracies. Managers are too scared to make decisions so they look outside in order to justify any decision. Its maddening as these are the very people who are paid to make these types of decisions, yet they dont. And due to their employer being a public entity, they are not held to any real standards nor limited by such pesky matters as profits and productivity. It happens in local government,it happens at the state level and its absolutely enormous at the federal level. The waste is astounding, as are the underlying causes. Its so simple to solve, yet as long as we have the fox's guarding the hen houses, it will remain.