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The Bottom Line: Series 13: Doing Business with Goverments

09/03/2013 GMT

Doing Business with Goverments

Series 13

BBC World News - The Bottom Line, Series 13, Doing Business with Goverments

Evan Davis meets three business leaders who sell goods and services to governments.

Evan Davis meets three business leaders who sell goods and services to governments. How hard is it to win contracts, and what are the challenges of doing business with the state?

From huge infrastructure projects to supplying civil servants with paperclips, there is big money to be made from public sector contracts. Evan Davis meets three business leaders with experience of bidding for - and securing - government contracts and finds out what it is like doing business with the state. How easy is it for smaller companies to get a slice of the public sector pie? And are we - the ultimate customers - really getting a good deal?

The Bottom Line: Series 13

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