Exactly. That’s not really “politics” as generally understood: it’s simple self-serving corruption, just as it would be if the CEO of a private company hired a known incompetent contractor because they were classmates of his wife.
Government is like an enterprise after you take away reason and accountability.
Well, of course, those people would know. Good thing our intrepid investigative journalists decided to ask them.
The government doesn’t deem contract proposals as technically superior it’s usually technically capable which usually means they can probably do it at the least cost because they always want to “save” money. Or it’s as simple as the contractor knows the right person.
Cost on the other hand is a result of the way the contracts are written. Usually piss poor with specifics down to a gnats azz that no one could ever build to so the lawyers get involved and a large majority of what the government wanted and thought it had in the contract is out of scope. I’m not defending CGI by any means but 9 out of 10 times if something is built to spec and or the contract it’ll never work and then you make your money by making it work with contract mods and then there’s delays etc.
Yep . Money laundering.
It is incredible how little people understand about federal IT procurement, especially the media