In that jittery period, government agencies worried that it would damage their image if civil servants were involved in bidding clubs, and so some departments sent down orders forbidding civil servants to take part in RCAs.
那一陣子風聲鶴唳，政府機關擔心公務員參加標會破壞形象，還曾有機關以公文下達指示：公務員不准參加標會。