Government Orders update
When the government needs to buy resources from the private sector, the players, it uses Government Orders (GO) to do so. You can think of these as tenders or procurement. To ensure fair order assignment, and cheap fulfillment, the government uses a form of auction, when picking which company to assign the order to.
The companies that want to bid for the government orders need to form teams of 3 to 7 contractors, and apply together creating a Government Order Bid.