There's a reason procurement decisions like this are delegated to career civil servants - they have much fewer valid excuses to be socializing with vendors.
Corruption in this context usually instead takes the form of job offers post-retirement; and that's usually most common in military procurement, where early retirement from public service is the norm.
>There's a reason procurement decisions like this are delegated to career civil servants - they have much fewer valid excuses to be socializing with vendors.
This is simply false. Regular Capture and the revolving door are rampant at telecommunications companies
Corruption in this context usually instead takes the form of job offers post-retirement; and that's usually most common in military procurement, where early retirement from public service is the norm.