Even with the proper contract awarding process, corruption is widespread.
Decisions made at lunches and then the contract award process skewed to award the correct person, at some insane markup over real market prices for the same service.
The process is unfixable. Instead we should just look at a teams total cost and total achievement every year, and if the money they've spent doesn't look good value for money, we give them a bad performance review and their government career will be tricky to repair.
That is a far stronger incentive to get the most out of taxpayer money than ever stricter, yet super easy to game, anti corruption measures.
Decisions made at lunches and then the contract award process skewed to award the correct person, at some insane markup over real market prices for the same service.
The process is unfixable. Instead we should just look at a teams total cost and total achievement every year, and if the money they've spent doesn't look good value for money, we give them a bad performance review and their government career will be tricky to repair.
That is a far stronger incentive to get the most out of taxpayer money than ever stricter, yet super easy to game, anti corruption measures.