There is big business in government procurement. Governments purchase goods and services for their ministries and agencies, and they construct infrastructural projects that run into billions of dollars.
Studies state that government procurement of goods and services is roughly 10% to 15% of gross domestic product (GDP) for developed countries and that it could perhaps be more for developing countries. There are no definite figures of the value of government procurement in Malaysia. Estimates suggest that it would have been about RM38bil for 2003. This seems to be a conservative figure considering that it is only 10% of GDP for the same year.
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