At best, it would seem, we have an IT decision maker with little to no faith in the ethics or capabilities of those above them in the organization. At worst we have someone actively attempting to take advantage of a business by being paid to be a key decision maker while, instead of doing the job for which they are hired or even doing nothing at all, actively putting their weight behind a vendor that was not properly evaluated based possibly solely on not needing to do any of the work themselves.