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I'm sorry but how do you deal with the fact governments are complex entities which require important software and IT infrastructure to function ?

From my experience building everything in-house is always going to be 10 times more expensive than any market rate software/service and it's also going to be worse, because IT/software companies are concentrating that knowledge and know-how and the government entities end up doing half-assed engineering with a few engineers where they'd need dozens.