Human resource and purchasing protections may create inefficiency and delays. The independence of professional administrators may reduce responsiveness to elected officials. In some cases yes, although some writings on privatization might lead one to believe otherwise. Kolderie makes a distinction between the provision and the production of public services. Provision occurs in the political realm and involves decisions about what services to provide, who will pay for the services, taxpayers or users, and who will produce the service.
Production consists of providing the service to clients.
Government may decide to assign production to government organizations to let the private sector serve as producers. Government may contract with one or more producers to provide the service. For example, a city refuse department may respond to requests from elected officials to pick-up large items normally left to private haulers. A private contractor would decline and cite that the contract limits the size of items. In essence, the contract gives the private contractor the best of both worlds.