The phrase "about to commission" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when indicating that someone is on the verge of officially assigning a task or project to someone else.
Example: "The company is about to commission a new study on renewable energy sources."
Alternatives: "ready to commission" or "set to commission".
When she learned that the university was about to commission work from a Canadian muralist, she asked to be considered, noting that she was already on campus.
At the National Theatre of Scotland, artistic director Vicky Featherstone is about to commission a green audit of her company, which, having no permanent home, has no building to run, but many audiences to reach as it tours.
This year alone Sloan is distributing about $5 million to commission, develop and present plays, films, television shows, books, radio programming, lectures and more.
Knoll after the Knolls became a more corporate place, concentrating heavily on office systems but still caring enough about furniture to commission pieces from a who's who of design and architecture.
But Bojan Marceta, a 28-year-old local cameraman who raised 5,000 euros (about $7,300) to commission the statue, said Rocky was a universal hero and far more deserving of respect than Serbia's own recent leadership.
Decision-makers need to think differently about how to commission long-term condition services.
Much has also been written about the need to commission research that is used, and about the assessment of how health research is used in policy-making [ 16- 19].
President Eisenhower was sufficiently worried about the national aimlessness to commission a study of "Goals for Americans".
However, we spent about $17,000 per mural to commission them in 1984.
In contrast many health policy makers remain sceptical about acupuncture and reluctant to commission acupuncture services while its effect remains unsubstantiated The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the evidence of effectiveness of acupuncture for AR.
Though the Deepcut families have not given up, editors are now loath to commission articles about the affair; they believe, in rough terms, that it is now history.
