A number of years ago, I interviewed for and rejected an offer to babysit an off-site clone of a server used to conduct/track, etc, background investigations. I had worked on contract at the main site, and found the contracted support to be lacking. I figured out that this would have been a cherry job, but I chickened out when the supposed technical program manager of the 8a corporation could not correctly answer one single technical question I had. Contracting out, particularly involving non-competitive bids by 8a’s is not always the solution.
Government contracting is a quagmire on its good days.
My estimate is that less than 5% of the contracts are awarded based on merit and successfully achieve their missions in the time-frames promised.
There are many reasons for this—political fixing and kickbacks, affirmative action and other games, quick buck artists running full or partial scams, brain-dead contract officers working for .gov, failure to punish all of above, etc....