Protecting the rates and fines made through a bulk deal as 'affecting private entity' sounds a bit hypocritical as that same deal 'affects' that private entity massively in a positive way for being the only one with that big government-type of deal. Wouldn't you, as a taxpayer, like to know why that private entity got the deal, and how it is affecting society?

In Europe we have this system where public deals above a certain cost are open for everybody. If you meet the requirements best, you win the deal. Problem with this system is that the requirements are rarely written down properly, causing half-baked solutions meeting bare minimums and extra costs to fix them. For example, that is why we Europeans are unable to produce proper governmental IT systems, or buy new trains that won't break down due to cold weather.