The phrase "a major procurement" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a significant purchase or acquisition, often in a business or governmental context.
Example: "The company is preparing for a major procurement of new software to enhance its operational efficiency."
Alternatives: "a significant acquisition" or "a substantial purchase".
The only way defence can pay for this is by restricting other equipment programmes; and that's assuming Successor is built on time and in budget – almost unheard of for a major procurement.
Sanctions advocates in the United States also contend Iran's automotive industry is a major procurement network that imports material and technologies used to build uranium centrifuges instead of cars.
The review, which followed Papua New Guinean criticism of the prominent role played by contractors in Australia's aid programme – and a concerted campaign of media scrutiny – sparked a major procurement overhaul at AusAid, including a 25% reduction in the use of expatriate consultants.
"Government cannot afford to let up on ensuring that all major procurement projects, from nuclear sites to tidal barrages and airports, all use British steel," he said.
But military contractors have begun moving into the southeastern part of the city as a result of a decision to move the Navy's major procurement agency to the old Navy Yard along the Potomac River.
"The top 20 major procurement programmes have a cumulative delay of 483 months.
There has been a growing interest in the role of a SIAM provider for the service towers model of an IT estate, with a couple of major procurements giving it a fresh momentum, and hints that it could provide a lead for the wider public sector.
KBR Inc has signed a major engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract with Magnolia LNG for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility at the Port of Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA.
SNC-Lavalin has been awarded, in joint venture with its Australian partner WorleyParsons, a major engineering, procurement and construction management (EPCM) services contract by Emirates Aluminium (Emal).
In addition, both powers had their own reasons to seek the downfall of Gamal Abd al-Nasir's régime, which had revealed a major arms procurement program with the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia in September 1955 and which had further defied the western powers by nationalizing the Suez Canal Company in July 1956.
The Treasury is understood to believe that Defence, Equipment and Support (DE&S), which runs major procurement projects for the MoD, has a patchy track record on submarines, according to the Times.
