No E&O risk for these fellas....'cause they know the Man...
Zero risk, so to speak....
My brother has a business colleague who was going to bid on a contract in Chicago. The contracting officer told him in order to apply he would need to go through a specific consultant. That consultant wanted $200k to "guide" him through the bidding process.
Evidently that is the way everything is run in Chicago. It has all the corruption of a third world country.