That's what's really happening behind the scenes with 99% of this stuff. You have a prime contractor that then subcontracts the actual work to small companies

That's what's really happening behind the scenes with 99% of this stuff. You have a prime contractor that then subcontracts the actual work to small companies and then the prime just handles project management and the government interface. However, this ends up causing problems with the motivations of the individual actors not lining up.