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Do you have any examples of such projects, sounds like you have some interesting stories (but obviously no pressure if it could dox you)
Yeah, I'm not certain who actually funds engineering firms or what their connections are - but first hand experience of people in the field, plus some real data would definitely help get an idea about that.
The conquest of small firms and the consolidation is part of capitalist development, though, it's the tendencies of capital concentration. These large dominating firms doing planning actually plants the seeds for socialism, though, even though they are currently private. That's an example of how labor is already being socialized under capitalism by huge monopolies, but it's organization or control, though, isn't socialized. (Growing contradiction between the socialization of labor and the private class ownership of it).
It is upsetting though when you can see the infrastructure for public engineering works being built - just to have it appropriated and used for private gain. I have definitely seen that contradiction play out at my own job! But, hey, that's why we need a revolution. The means of production are already being built and increasingly socialized already, but now they must be seized!
But I don't have much concretely to say about engineering firms - so if you have any details or thoughts feel free to share!