It’s really only us tech nerds who actually see through the scam.
When you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re spending other people’s money, the greater the cost and complexity the greater your accomplishment looks.
When you don’t know what you’re doing and you’re spending other people’s money, the greater the cost and complexity the greater your accomplishment looks.
They know, very very well, that if they screw up the first part, the second part will be undeliverable. Of course, a local council would not know this.
So the blame is entirely on them. That's the job they bid for. They may be cynically doing a bad job on the first part, convincing the local gov that it's their fault, then exploiting that for more time/money.
This seems highly likely.
A newer tech consultancy might not realise that this is the biz they are in; oracle do. You job is business process consultancy using IT.