Your purchasing folks and CXX people are doing it for other reasons, like a convenient scapegoat, liability shift, etc, if things go wrong. "We experienced a da

Your purchasing folks and CXX people are doing it for other reasons, like a convenient scapegoat, liability shift, etc, if things go wrong. "We experienced a day-long outage due to a problem with a third party vendor". Or plain old job security...it's hard for them to accept a process where something gets selected without their input.