Eh, once i was at a startup where we were selling our mostly COTS software to a government agency, but they had to put it out for a bid. They basically lifted

Eh, once i was at a startup where we were selling our mostly COTS software to a government agency, but they had to put it out for a bid. They basically lifted our marketing material into the req and said "software must do all <X> and cost $<Y>." We had a competitor who had copied a bunch of our stuff, including our typos, but they were missing one essential feature. Yet they still got the bid somehow. A mystery for the ages.