I’ve done a lot of work for multiple national governments on multiple projects. There are two facts that can be true at the same time: - The government often g

I’ve done a lot of work for multiple national governments on multiple projects. There are two facts that can be true at the same time: - The government often grotesquely overpays for mediocre product delivered by vendors without holding them accountable in a meaningful way - The government process drives up costs to an insane level independent of implementor good faith efforts and strongly selects for companies good at the process rather than execution These are two different problems, and both of them manifest with any large contract. I would make the observation that it is easier to hide mediocre product and execution when you can hide behind a grotesquely inefficient and mediocre government process. What transpired here should never happen. But I know why and how it happened.