By that, he stressed he did not mean military missions – "conflicts are a matter for Nato" – but "a pan-European integrated defence industry", common procurement of battleships, aircraft and other military kit.
RML and SH have a common pooled procurement tender system.
Why isn't there more common procurement, ministers ask, contradicting their demand for local diversity in policing styles.
He said "synergies" had saved the group €633m in 2014, and would be exploring new ways to get value, including common procurement of aircraft in conjunction with controversial Gulf carrier Qatar Airways.
In addition, logistical and human issues should be considered: for example, common procurement strategies, training of technicians, communication to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance, feedback of results to local clinicians and central policy makers, and identification of the leaders who will support the development of surveillance networks.
The C-suite and procurement leaders face a common dilemma when choosing procurement software: should the new software system be an "on-premises" application or a cloud solution?
Participants further argued that product specifications, a common feature of procurements, were constraining and often too granular to reflect realistic product assessments.
Combinatorial auctions are currently becoming a common practice in industrial procurement, allowing bidders (sellers of goods and services in the procurement setting) to avoid the risk of selling good or service bundles that are incomplete, inefficient, or excessively expensive to deliver.
The group needs an "integrated industrial policy" and a common policy on government procurement, things which require "a change in culture, especially in the bigger countries," he says.Mr Chávez's project is very different from Brazil's.
In this paper, we demonstrate an important and counter-intuitive benefit of procurement decentralization in a common setting where a firm with multiple divisions procures a durable good from a supplier.
