The government giving money to rent seeking middlemen is corruption and a common problem with bureaucracy. The corrupt bureaucrats here realized it is more effi

The government giving money to rent seeking middlemen is corruption and a common problem with bureaucracy. The corrupt bureaucrats here realized it is more efficient to extract value by using private corporations, so the root of the problem isn't the corporations but the corrupt bureaucrats. Private corporations often gets good value from outsourcing, why can't the government? Corruption, plain and simple.