The phrase "a procurement holiday" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a temporary suspension or pause in procurement activities, often implemented by organizations to reassess their purchasing strategies or budgets.
Example: "Due to budget constraints, the company has announced a procurement holiday for the next quarter."
Alternatives: "procurement freeze" or "suspension of procurement activities".
For the past ten years the Pentagon has been on a procurement holiday.
(In the early 1990's, he says, the Pentagon went on a "procurement holiday").
All this during a "procurement holiday" that drove a steady increase in the average age of our weapon systems.
At the Pentagon today, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld argued that a "procurement holiday" in the 1990's had left the armed services with crumbling buildings, underpaid soldiers, malfunctioning equipment and thinning stockpiles of spare parts.
Three separate objectives -- increasing the pay of the U.S. fighting force, replacing aged equipment (a legacy of the procurement holiday of the 1990s), and "transforming" the troops and their equipment to deliver lethal force quickly and from greater distances -- imply a ramp-up in spending that outstrips current budgetary projections because they aren't set in law yet.
After the "procurement holiday" of the past decade as weapons ordered during the cold war came into service the average age of America's military hardware will rise sharply over the next decade.
This is hardly unsustainable: if anything, I would argue that we're not spending enough today, given the procurement holiday we took in the 1990s.
Though some of the proposed $48 billion increase next year would help pay for the war in Afghanistan, most of it would go toward improving pay and benefits for troops, rebuilding equipment and reversing what Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has called the Pentagon's "procurement holiday," which followed the collapse of the Soviet Union.
A Procurement Auction Model for Framework Agreements.
He added, "The ultimate issue, of course, was a question of procurement, and I am not a procurement officer".
All UN organizations are guided by the Common Guidelines for Procurement, which cover procurement from sourcing to the execution of a procurement contract.
