[_JamesA_]

The big 3 get hired to protect managers. Hire a smaller consulting firm and the project goes sideways you both get fired. Hire a big firm and it goes sideways they get fired - until the next project.

[pmontra]

Or: you both get fired but they hire you because of all the money they made anyway.

[franktankbank]

Sounds like the contracts are not written correctly then.

[arbor_day]

Yup, sort of the whole point. There's a lot of cost plus contracts floating around here, which is a terrible incentive.