A friend has told me that the Dutch government has issued a tender that blatantly violateds the government's own open standards statements or policies. It's a tender from about 7 ministries for 22,000 desktop computers with specific references to MS technologies such as Active Directory when LDAP would suffice.
The tender's called "GOUD" and the choice of technologies is expected to be used by the government for the next 5-10 years.
This could be stopped either by writing to the Dutch government or to the European Commission, but writing such a letter takes work to find the relevent Dutch government policies or European laws, who to send it to etc.
If we want a government to take a stand against rigged tenders, the Dutch government seems a good candidate due to it's outspoken support of open standards.
Is anyone interested in working on this? (or does anyone know of free software supporters already working on it?)