Same thing happens in the government sector here (US). If you don't spend all of the budget you requested last year, you might not get it next year. There is

Same thing happens in the government sector here (US). If you don't spend all of the budget you requested last year, you might not get it next year. There is an entire ecosystem of bottom-feeder GSA companies that apparently exist to spend year-end money that would otherwise go to 'waste'.