Unfortunately when governments get "big business is better" religion things tend to go pear-shaped. In my neck of the woods a change of government led to a change in procurement policies for IT. "We won't engage with any company without experience running $100 million+ projects for any government contract and they need offices in at least three countries."

This is a great way of making sure only EDS (sorry, HP), IBM, and the other usual suspects are the only ones who can do work. Not the best use of my tax dollars.