Consultation response: SOU 2016:78 Order and order in welfare
IT&Telekomföretagen, Sweden's largest employer and industry organization for companies in the IT and telecom industry, hereby submits the following consultation response regarding SOU 2016: 78 Order and Orderliness in Welfare, in which we reject the report's proposal on profit limitation, as it will indirectly affect our member companies' operations and is a fundamentally important issue for all suppliers to the public sector.
Executive summary
IT& Telekomföretagen represents around 1,200 companies in the IT and telecom sector that are not currently covered by the proposals put forward by the inquiry. However, we want to reject the report's proposal on profit limitation, as it will indirectly affect our member companies' operations and is a fundamentally important issue for all suppliers to the public sector.
The IT industry and welfare
The ICT sector is one of the largest subcontractors to the public sector, supplying qualified services and products on a daily basis to both private and publicly owned health and social care, as well as to schools and other welfare activities.
We reject the inquiry's proposal for a profit restriction for welfare companies, as we are concerned that the same reasoning with a profit restriction may also apply to other suppliers to the welfare sector. Such a restriction on IT suppliers would, for example, mean that IT companies would not be able to participate in public procurement and that the welfare sector in Sweden would thus lose innovative power and not be able to take advantage of the opportunities of digitization. This in turn means that the welfare sector will simply not be able to meet the challenges that exist and that Sweden will lose our leading position in terms of innovation capacity.