Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Public bodies rushing to accept contracts thinking that suppliers have their best interests in mind is horribly naive. "Public bodies" do not rush ... People who work there do. Those people really do not have that much of an incentive to be careful. They do not really bear the costs of their decision. They are also people, susceptible to having their decision influenced by whatever small or not so small immediate b…
Too balance this perspective, let's remember that not all public workers are bad people. Many of them are also underfunded and understaffed, and don't have the lawyers and means of a rich corporation. The GP's "hoodwinked" was apropos.
"This perspective" said nothing about "public" workers being bad and only referred to the implications of the incentives they have at scale.