Government procurement trends towards broken in most countries.
You start out with a nice and clean set of rules, easy to validate. Stuff like "make sure the c-suite aren't relatives of the government officials making the decision".
Time goes by, something goes wrong. Press has a field day. Politicians get embarrassed and add a rule to ensure they can't be embarrassed that way again.
For example, maybe the company chosen was in a dire financial situation, and goes bankrupt, leaving the government up the creek without a paddle. The politicians get embarrassed and add a rule to the procurement process that requires the company getting the contract must demonstrate that they are a going concern.
Over time, what started as a neat and clean system, ends up with the most convoluted and complicated sets of checks and balances known to man. Purchasing decisions that used to take a week, now take 6 months+, and require a significant outlay from the companies that are in the running.
What you end up with is that very few companies can actually compete in the space, few of them have the financial resources to be able to make the kinds of outlay involved, nor take that kind of bet.
The companies that remain in the field are those with the most skill at navigating through the ever changing government procurement processes, and deliver just enough of a solution to satisfy the government, without causing drama.
You can practically guarantee this Fujitsu drama is going to cause yet more rules to be added to the procurement process, because politicians won't want to be embarrassed this way again.
This is almost identical to the way a lot of software development works. So much organic growth. Something that started out completely sane, becomes a near impenetrable mess that practically guarantees bugs. We find edge cases and we fix them. We need to add extra functionality, so we just find a place that looks reasonably logical for it to go. Over and over, until "Wait, what....?" becomes the background sound of the office.
At least in software, we can more easily reach a consensus that it's time to refactor, or completely gut and replace what has gone before. It often hurts us to a sufficient degree that we're motivated to do so.
With governments, all the incentives are missing on the very people that need to be incentivised for it to be fixed. They don't want to have their name against a big re-do of the procurement process, and have it drop something that would have stopped the next disaster. Those are the kinds of things that opponents in an election will jump all over and tout as an example of why you're unfit to serve.