The database gang at my company offers most things through self-service tooling a sub-24-hour Slack queue for most others. Meanwhile the "spend the company's money" gang is way off in some ivory tower, and I'm pretty sure a purchase order would take 4-5 months of meetings (heavily involving the database gang). My director has a budget for headcount and budget for travel & entertainment which is divided among the Sr. Managers and Managers, but I think we'd have to reach the CTO or CTO + 1 to get the authority to spend money on products and services.

Baffled both by how bad your internal infrastructure is and by how easy it is for you to buy stuff.