Construction work has been inefficient: some contractors failed to deliver, costs increased exponentially, and only a fraction of targets were met.
Inefficient tendering gave contractors a chance to squeeze more money out by foot-dragging.
Opponents of the agreements say they slow construction and inflate costs by requiring contractors to follow inefficient union work rules, such as having construction laborers carry electricians' materials instead of letting the electricians carry their own materials.
This powerful group of private contractors encourages reliance on inefficient software and hardware that is expensive to acquire and to maintain.
But, at the very least, it appears anti-democratic and inefficient, especially when you consider that contractors earn double, and potentially triple, the wages of regular civil servants.
What remains of the American industry relies on an archaic, inefficient confederation of mills, unions, middlemen and contractors, all knit together by a tangle of tariffs and textile quotas.
The city is certainly noisy, though not dirtier than it used to be; private contractors have taken over from the old, inefficient and union-dominated municipal services.
"Architects and engineers work in silos, data systems are disparate and not as advanced as they could be, and when contractors work on buildings, it's just inefficient".
These strengths and traditions of academic medicine can help reshape the growing, inefficient, and costly reliance of governments and ministries on outsourcing to private contractors for building capacity and health care delivery.
Mr. Gates said it would have been far too costly and inefficient to have both shipyards gear up to be the lead contractor.
