In almost every country there is a number of well connected companies who make a living exclusively by specializing at navigating through the complicated layers of bureaucracy and swindling the taxpayer by selling overpriced and unnecessary proprietary products and services to a government who by cluelessness or corruption, has no idea or doesn't care about sensible technical solutions and just agrees with whatever those preferential suppliers offer.

It's hilarious when you look at the web pages of such companies and see that their only customers in the last decades are various government agencies and state enterprises which are their bread an butter as they would never be competitive on the free market. Working at such companies is even more toxic. Extremely outdated tech, poorly qualified staff, huge bureaucracy yet poor management and poor understanding of the work going on, and so many people doing nothing all day than keeping seats warm and answering a couple of emails per week.

This is especially true in Germany. I remember the story from a former colleague who worked at the German information security government office (BSI) which had a cipher calculator on their website and it turned out to have a flaw in the calculation, and since the guy who implemented it didn't work there anymore and nobody on the staff knew where the code was, so instead of fixing the calculator or removing it from the website, they instead put a warning on the webpage that this calculator is wrong and shouldn't be used and called it a day lol. Hilarious but also sad for the German taxpayer.