text: how Tim Davies summarizes this point: 
  
  Right now [public] bodies often procure data collection, data publishing and data 
  interfaces all in one block (as seems to be the case with Oxfordshires real-time bus 
  information - leading to a roadblock on innovation) - and so without these layers being 
  separated in procurement, some of the benefits here stand to be lost. 
  
  Changing procurement of information/data-rich public services would be, of course, only the first 
  
  step of a general reform of procurement laws and regulations. After management of Open Data has 
  
  been simplified, it becomes time to implement similar simplifications to procurement of everything 
  
  else. In fact, in such a scenario, there would be much less possibilities for the loopholes, frauds and 
  
  inefficiencies that forced local procurement procedures to become so slow and complicated: since 
  
  the public budget and other relevant public data would already be fully open, errors and other 
  
  problems would surface and be fixed much more quickly and reliably than today, even assuming 
  
  that they would continue to appear with the same frequency. 