Because governments, like almost all entities, are beholden to budgets and accounting which incentivizes low spending. So you get lowest-bid contractors. On top

Because governments, like almost all entities, are beholden to budgets and accounting which incentivizes low spending. So you get lowest-bid contractors. On top of that, Europe (and especially France, IMO) isn’t real comfortable with foreign tech solutions at the moment. Hence hiring the “local clowns”