Also, the US bidding process is long, arbitrary, and favors rent-seeking. Only a small subset of local firms will bother to play in them. The way a private com

Also, the US bidding process is long, arbitrary, and favors rent-seeking. Only a small subset of local firms will bother to play in them. The way a private company would solve the problem would be hire a bunch of experts and in-house a lot of the technical design and procurement work.