Sentence examples for a big procurement from inspiring English sources

The British government treated it as a big procurement program, putting out bids, selecting contractors, picking winners and concentrating their bets.

Spiralling government debt in America and Britain means that "wars of choice" are no longer affordable and the search is on for cuts in big procurement programmes.

Moreover, since most bio-defense projects are still in the research stages, it is not clear which ones will lead to big procurement contracts.

"In Asia-Pacific the big projects, big procurements gaining traction are ones where it's more about high altitude reconnaissance.

"This is by far the biggest procurement process in the NHS and is a dangerous experiment.

Christina McAnea, Unison's head of health, said: "This is by far the biggest procurement process in the NHS and is a dangerous experiment.

Today, the missile defense effort is the Pentagon's single biggest procurement program.

Until the DfT was forced to scrap the award of the west coast contract to FirstGroup, the deal to build 1,200 Thameslink carriages had been the department's biggest procurement headache, after Siemens was selected ahead of Britain's last remaining train factory as preferred bidder.

Byles said the government could make a big difference by tweaking procurement rules for infrastructure projects.

A big problem in the procurement field in the public sector at the moment is that there is little interest in developing a supply chain, just in getting individual opportunities 'out there'.

There was also a big industry in slave finance, procurement and transport.