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9. The Price of Everything but the Value of Nothing
9. The Price of Everything but the Value of Nothing
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would be full cost recovery -- plus, in the United Kingdom, the required rate of return to the Treasury. At the same time, if the public sector is doing something with the PSI that the 1 Based on a presentation found at http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/12/34/40066135.pdf 37
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The main concern is to ensure a level playing field so that competition can occur, and if the private sector can make downstream products more cheaply or meet consumer demands in other ways, then the public sector body should consider pulling out of the market. One implication of these considerations is that public sector bodies should make their information available at the earliest point that it is useful to businesses.
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The costs of the three types of detriments were estimated to be ₤20 million from high pricing, ₤140 million from restriction of downstream competition, and ₤360 million from failure to exploit PSI. Thus OFT suggests that the net value of public sector information in the United Kingdom could be increased to approximately ₤1.1 billion pounds by resolving all of the problems already identified.
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