It always baffles me why an organisation with a large number of highly technical staff decide to outsoure things en-mass to suppliers. I currently work for a c

It always baffles me why an organisation with a large number of highly technical staff decide to outsoure things en-mass to suppliers. I currently work for a company with a large number of highly skilled IT people, but it still insists on outsourcing projects en-mass, despite failure after failure (with a fairly loose definition of failure, which can be very late projects, or unmaintainable code bases, or bug after bug after bug ...). Granted there may not be enough full time staff to take the project on, but surely things would be more successful by brining in a pool of contracts to work inhouse alongside the full timers?