business relations between small business and the government have been steadily going downhill ... [and that] more firms aren't doing business with the government simply because it's too cumbersome and complicated. Others are getting shut out because the government is bundling more work into contracts, which are too big for small firms to bid on.
For example, a group representing Ottawa-area information-technology firms told MPs they would be cut out of billions of dollars in business if the government charges ahead with plans to bundle contracts in four large IT deals that could be worth up to $80 billion over 20 years.
Small businesses are the lifeblood of local economies. We need more of them and less of the monopolizing corporations. Yet the government's bidding process rewards big business - the bigger the better - and punishes small businesses, precisely because of their size.
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