This is absolutely how govt. contracts in EU work - be it IT or construction. I remember public contracts made up ~20% of the Austrian GDP. Siemens infamously

This is absolutely how govt. contracts in EU work - be it IT or construction. I remember public contracts made up ~20% of the Austrian GDP. Siemens infamously had a kickback arm in their Romanian subsidiary, SAP was fined over $200 million just recently for bribery charges.