Even if the government has the ability to properly manage the process it does not bring it to bear because both the government bureaucracy and the contractor be

Even if the government has the ability to properly manage the process it does not bring it to bear because both the government bureaucracy and the contractor benefit from the waste of resources. The larger the amount of taxpayer money that is being spent the more opportunity for a larger more powerful bureaucracy to oversee the spending and more opportunity for profit by the contractor. The same mutually beneficial waste exists at the contractor to labor unions interface (union drives up cost, more $$ for them, contractor passes on cost, more $$ for them) and at beureaucracy to politician and appointed administrator interface (bigger bureaucracy more resources go to it and more power for the administrating officials). The only loser in the whole deal is the taxpayer who has to pay more for less.