@Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 Oh bloody hell, yes. Those institutions over here (Berlin) are literally taking themselves down since 20, 30 years already. They've been getting rid of most in-house expertise on the way, and are now relying on private sector counseling and decision making with most bigger state projects.

Obviously for that you do not always get fact-based neutrality, but a profit-interested bias as well. If anything fails or works differently during the realization of a project, new external consultation cost and major delays are created.
Lowest bidders for public tenders are preferred over quality.
At last all responsibility for costly external decision making is left with the institutions themselves.

A deadly spiral, as too many projects delay, are way over budget, and people's trust is gone.