In the market out here, anyone buying in huge quantities like the govt does benefits from huge discounts. If we had serious guys up there handling the govt business, govt would be buying at much less price or at least at market price. They would forego the discount to cover for the time lapse that it takes for them to pay, which is always used as the excuse why the govt has to be charged more.
While at it, the theory of govt taking long to pay has been crashed by the fast speed at which the huge payments at NYS were processed.
Pheew, but the real beneficiaries wouldn't want an efficient payment process and system. How would they benefit?