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Generally speaking this remains true in government contracting as well. Back when I used to work in that sphere the government always went for the lowest bidder. This is usually billed as a way for the government to be fiscally responsible but usually the result is that they get back poor software with the contractor embedding themselves deep into the design and a huge pricetag on actually fixing the damn thing.

That among many other issues is where I realized that the way competition works in this scenario simply doesn't work when the incentive is to keep yourself and your company on the government's payroll rather than write quality software.