I recall buying $50-60k worth of hardware at one of my previous employers, with only 2 signatures required, both of which I was able to obtain within the space of an afternoon.
Moved on to other projects until after the next legislative session, and the period after where the bureaucracy makes it all happen, then we actually scheduled a start date that was 3 months later, since that was how long it took to get all the resources back from other projects.
Government isn’t run like a household, nor like a business, nor should it be.