Obviously, I am speaking as someone with experience in procurement and in your bureaucracy.
My contention is that this program in particular suffered extraordinary incompetence. People devised the process as if they knew nothing about how procurement should work. This has nothing to do with politics. This is bureaucrats devising processes that are unworkable.
This process started in 2012. This is now another decade. People don't understand. The SOIQ—the solicitation of interest and qualifications—came out in 2012. The Americans are building a set of frigates. It took them three years to do the front-end stuff and make their decision, and another five or six years until they get their first one, at a third of the cost. Now, it may not turn out to be exactly a third of the cost, but—