1. Economies of scale: Packaged procurement can consolidate multiple requirements and improve economies of scale. For example, if the government needs to purchase IT equipment for multiple projects, packaged purchasing can provide suppliers with a larger market size, reduce costs, and obtain more competitive offers.
2. Specialization needs: Some projects require a whole range of technologies and professionals, and only packaged procurement can meet this need. For example, the government needs to build a general hospital, which requires the integration of medical equipment, construction and medical services, etc. Packaged procurement can ensure that all aspects of the needs are coordinated.
3. Harmonized management: Packaged procurement can reduce the government's management costs and workload. The government only needs to work with a few suppliers to manage and track the progress of projects in a unified way, rather than having to work with and manage a large number of decentralized suppliers individually.
However, packaged procurement may also have the problem of exclusivity, as follows:
1. Restriction of Competition: Packaged procurement will lead to a reduction in the number of suppliers competing in the market, and in particular, small firms may not be able to take on large-scale packaged projects. This will create a monopoly phenomenon, limiting competition and affecting the fairness and efficiency of the market.
2. Increased market access threshold: For some small and medium-sized suppliers, they may not be able to meet all the project requirements due to the excessive size and complexity of the packaged procurement needs, and thus may not be able to enter the government procurement market, resulting in an increase in the market access threshold.
In order to solve the possible exclusivity problem of packaged procurement, the government can take the following measures:
1. Decompose the project: the government can decompose the large-scale packaged project into several small-scale projects, to attract more suppliers to participate in the competition, and at the same time to ensure that the implementation of the project results.
2. Introducing small and medium-sized enterprises: The government can encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the procurement market, provide them with more opportunities and resources, and enhance their competitiveness.
3. Strengthening supervision: the government should strengthen the supervision of the packaged procurement process to ensure the openness and transparency of the procurement process, and the enforcement of the law to avoid undue exclusionary behavior.
Overall, there will be exclusivity problems with packaging in government procurement, but the impact of exclusivity can be mitigated through reasonable planning and strict supervision to achieve fair, just and efficient government procurement.