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@paulswartz@urbanists.social#LazyFedi I'm remembering a blog post / thread about #contracting issues when a vendor is hired to do work and a similar vendor is hired to review that work. Since vendors are involved in the same projects, so there's no incentive for the reviewing vendor to be strict: they're getting reviewed on another project too.
Does this ring a bell for anyone else?
Found it! https://sboots.ca/2022/10/12/charbonneau-loops-and-government-it-contracting/
"“Charbonneau Loops” and government IT contracting" by @sboots
sboots.ca · “Charbonneau Loops” and government IT contractingDan Hon’s newsletter had a great anecdote last week about the NYC Sanitation Department hiring McKinsey to study and design a procurement for trash containerization. It reminded me of a pattern that I’ve been meaning to write about for a while: “Charbonneau Loops” where the same companies are sometimes overseeing, and sometimes overseen, by their peers in the same industry. This happens when public sector organizations don’t have enough internal capacity to provide oversight directly, and they’re a recipe for problematic public sector outcomes.