text: procurement. 
  
  The same issue is denounced as an obstacle to innovation and cost savings in New 
  
  recommendations for improving local open government and creating online hubs: 
  
  John Grant focused on a major pain point for government at all levels for tapping into 
  the innovation economy: procurement issues, which civic entrepreneurs run into in 
  cities, statehouses and Washington. "It is time to look at these procurement rules more 
  closely," he said, and promote higher levels of innovation. "There are a lot of ideas are 
  happening but a lot of rules restrict vendors from interacting in government," said 
  Grant. Turner-Lee observed that traditional procurement laws may also not be flexible 
  enough to bring more mobile apps into government. 
  
  Current procurement laws aren't partially incompatible with an Open Data world only at this level, 
  
  that is when it's time to procure software that makes the data useful. Even bigger problems and 
  
  inefficiencies can be introduced at the beginning of data life, that is when data collection and 
  
  processing services are procured. We've already explained that forgetting to impose the right license 
  
  is one of the problems, but it's not the only one. Even future*organization*of all the foreseeable data 
  
  management activities should take advantage of the flexibility provided by data openness. Here is 