Assuming you're talking about inside an enterprise, rather than something minor or personal, then yes (although not necessarily my decisions).
A trap that sometimes gets laid out is it a binary build or buy decision, there is typically options in between in my opinion. Build isn't necessarily as onerous as it once was either, the use of cloud, frameworks, libraries, low code products and SaaS means you can often construct something from these legos.
In my experience, there are some in enterprises with procurement and IT management skills who tend not to have a clue about building modern software, and often push for buying stuff (keeps them busy), and sell it as a win, bought a thing, set it up, declared victory and fucked off to the next project leaving the users and technologists to figure out how to unfuck the mess that has accumulated around this clunky COTS product that is now a critical part fo the business.
A trap that sometimes gets laid out is it a binary build or buy decision, there is typically options in between in my opinion. Build isn't necessarily as onerous as it once was either, the use of cloud, frameworks, libraries, low code products and SaaS means you can often construct something from these legos.
In my experience, there are some in enterprises with procurement and IT management skills who tend not to have a clue about building modern software, and often push for buying stuff (keeps them busy), and sell it as a win, bought a thing, set it up, declared victory and fucked off to the next project leaving the users and technologists to figure out how to unfuck the mess that has accumulated around this clunky COTS product that is now a critical part fo the business.