Enlightenment of NY gov't procurement of public services to China (2)

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COMPETITIVE BIDDING

"The best practice is to have competitive bidding, so you don't give out a contract on an exclusive basis," Brecher said.

"Secondly, to have performance standards in the contracts, so you have standard when someone is doing a good job and when they are not," Brecher added.

On one hand, government procurement of public services can help citizens to get highly specialized and lower-cost services from organizations that have a great deal more expertise, David Van Slyke said.

On the other hand, it is cheaper for governments to contract out these public services to social or non-profit organizations "because you don't need to continue to carry those public personnel even once the services no longer needed," Van Slyke added.

Besides, by using non-profit organizations, "government is in some cases getting the subsidy effect," Van Slyke said. "In other words, non-profits have their own volunteers and private funds... that can be used to supplement the funding of public services through government contracts and funds."

Patrick Malyszek, president of M3 Federal Contract Practice Group, told Xinhua that "the overall result (of government procurement of public services) is tremendous because it actually took away the government, then usually taking away lots of social controls."

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