When it comes to consultancies/agencies this is basically put forward as a feature, not a bug. If you're doing a multi million dollar project of course you woul

When it comes to consultancies/agencies this is basically put forward as a feature, not a bug. If you're doing a multi million dollar project of course you would want to bring in 'experts' with 'prior experience in the problem space'. My experience of it is in advertising, look at something like GroupM. They intentionally make a set of agencies to act as different front doors into the group so they can make it look like there are no conflicts of interest. Then once work comes in the door it all gets serviced by the same shared resources. The 'front door' agencies of course promote as a centre of excellence with deep expertise etc. but you really don't need to read between the lines very much.