Does it matter?

Anybody else find this fuss about where the new blue British passport will be made just too silly?  De La Rue, a British firm famous for producing banknotes for countries around the world and expected to get the contract, was outbid by a Franco/Dutch firm.  And somehow this is now seen as a national disgrace.  Questions in Parliament and all sorts.  I have a feeling that if the contract had gone to De La Rue and it had later come to light that Gemalto (the Franco/Dutch lot) would have done it cheaper, people would now be screaming blue murder about the money wasted.  Such is life.