[Retric]

Outsourced companies deal similar issues internally while also forcing you to trust their management. Internally this kind of corruption is more difficult because you have more control, and fewer people are going to cooperate. Similar to how companies can regularly use untrustworthy low level employees handle cash.

You can still get rogue employees in ether case, but an outsourcing company is like a ready made conspiracy where any corners cut automatically turns into money.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Internally this kind of corruption is more difficult because you have more control

If we anthropomorphise the regulatory body, sure. In reality, there isn’t evidence either way. Corrupt governments handing work to the private sector is a proven efficiency booster. Meanwhile, competent governments Severn Trenting everything is textbook (on the political left).

[Retric]

Outsourcing and corruption isn’t limited to government agencies. Quite a lot of it is from companies to other companies or governments to company A and then from company A to company B where the subcontractors are at issue.

[DoctorOetker]

Outsource to 2+ contractors, use pooled testing, and use control tests to steer that percentage of tests towards those contractors that score better on the control tests. Obviously the contractor should not be allowed to know which samples are control tests.