I brought up the customer acquisition line item at one point in that call.
The assessment was performed using a 14-item checklist covering three quality domains including data acquisition (three items), statistical analysis (six items) and validation of microarray findings (five items).
Contracting officers shall obtain data other than certified cost or pricing data from the offeror or contractor for all acquisitions (including commercial item acquisitions), if that is the contracting officer's only means to determine the price to be fair and reasonable.
Shipped with a crate of similar acquisitions, the item was catalogued and entered irretrievably into the museum's holdings in 1960.
In dozens of programs, his administration focused on prevention but also dealt with disaster response and the acquisition of items like radiation detectors.
Xircom said it expected to report earnings, excluding amortization of good will and other acquisition-related items, of 30 cents to 35 cents a share.
Banc One, based in Columbus, Ohio, said earnings excluding the effect of acquisition-related items rose to $614.6 million, or 86 cents a share, from $377.5 million, or 53 cents, a year earlier.
As expected, the company stopped referring to a measurement called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI), a metric that excludes marketing costs as well as stock-based compensation and acquisition-related items.
The acquisition of an item almost certainly brings it into a new and potentially alien environment.
The Secretary of Defense may not incur any obligation against a stock fund of the Department of Defense for the acquisition of any item of supply if that acquisition is likely to result in an on-hand inventory (excluding war reserves) of that item of supply in excess of two years of operating stocks.
(2) Except for the acquisition of commercial items, contracting officers shall require that offerors identify in their proposals those items of supply that they will not manufacture or to which they will not contribute significant value, unless adequate price competition is expected (10 U.S.C. 2306a(b)(1)(A)(i) and 41 U.S.C. 3503(a)(1)(A)).
